GES gives Sonam Wangchuk a new idea for Ladakh

Wangchuk, Founding Director of Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement Of Ladakh, was at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit here to participate in a session titled ‘From the Lab to the Market: Connecting Science to the Entrepreneurship World’.

And the GES, he says, has made him think in an entirely new way, which he had never thought of so far.

“There are young people in Ladakh, but the men have so many opportunities and get easily absorbed in the Defence. Women are not so lucky. But now, I feel, that is not a problem, but an opportunity with a difference,” he said.

The entrepreneurship sector in Ladakh is not bustling yet, though the potential is huge, he says.



The lack of entrepreneurs, with men choosing to join the Army, has been an issue.

“But the GES, which has focused on women entrepreneurship, has made me think in a way that I have not thought so far. To get women into entrepreneurship will be what I’m going to look at now. Tourism is one of the many areas that they can look at,” he said.

At the same time, Wangchuk might return to Hyderabad. He said he had visited the CII Green Business Centre here to look at possibilities of partnership. There could be more discussions, said Wangchuk, who pioneered the idea of green architecture in Ladakh, including with his award-winning idea of Ice Stupas to solve the water problem in the cold desert.