Ladakh will now have 32 tehsils with creation of 17 new tehsils, intending to strengthen grassroots-level governance and eliminate overlap, L-G VK Saxena said. "This rationalisation ensures that every Revenue Village is mapped to a single Tehsil...every Tehsil to a single district," he added. People living in remote areas reportedly had to travel 300 km to reach a government office.