Sonam Wangchuk

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sonam Wangchuk
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	Sep 1, 1966(1966-09-01)
Age	58
Birthplace	Jammu and Kashmir
Country	India
Horoscope	Virgo

Sonam Wangchuk Biography

Sonam Wangchuk is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on September 1, 1966 in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Wangchuk was born the year 1966 in Uleytokpo located near Alchi within the Leh district of Ladakh. He did not attend an education institution until age 9 since there were no schools in the area he lived in. He was taught by his mother the basics of his mother tongue, up to that point.

In 1988, following his graduation, Wangchuk along with his brother, and five other classmates, founded the Students Education and Cultural Movement in Ladakh (SECMOL). After testing school reforms at the government high school in Saspol, SECMOL launched Operation New Hope in partnership with the department of education in the government as well as the village inhabitants.

Wangchuk was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope in 1994, a collaboration of government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government school system. He invented the Ice Stupa technique that creates artificial glaciers, used for storing winter water in form of conical shaped ice heap.

From 2007-2010, Wangchuk worked as an Education Advisor for MS, a Danish NGO working to support the Ministry of Education (Nepal) for education reforms.

Wangchuk has completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar (then REC Srinagar) in 1987. Due to disagreements with his father regarding the decision to pursue an engineering degree the student had to pay for the cost of his education. He also attended two years of advanced studies at the level of Earthen Architecture at Craterre School of Architecture in Grenoble, France in 2011.

Sonam Wangchuk Net Worth

Sonam Wangchuk is one of the richest Engineer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sonam Wangchuk 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sonam Wangchuk (born 6 September 1966) is an Indian engineer innovative and education reformist. He was the founder-director of the Students Educational and Cultural Movement Ladakh (SECMOL) which was established in 1988 by students who were in his own words the “victims” of an unjust education system that was imposed on Ladakh. He is also famous for developing the SECMOL campus that is powered by solar energy and does not rely on fossil fuels to cook, light or heating.

Wangchuk believes he is fortunate to not have suffered the aches of attending school in foreign languages that other Ladakhi children were required to learn. The father of his son, Sonam Wangyal, a politician who later became the minister in the state government and resided at Srinagar. At the age of 9 He was transported by his mother to Srinagar and enrolled at the school. Because he had a different appearance to pupils, they was treated in a dialect was not his own. Because of this, his inability to respond was misinterpreted as dumb. He recollects this time as the most bleak time of his life. Not able to endure the abuse that he received, he fled on his own in Delhi where he made a plea to the principal of the school in Vishesh Kendriya Vidyala.

From June 1993 until August 2005, Wangchuk also founded and worked as the editor of Ladakh’s only print magazine Ladags Melong In 2001, he was appointed to be an advisor for the education in the Hill Council Government. In 2002, together with other NGO heads, he founded Ladakh Voluntary Network (LVN), a network of Ladakhi NGOs, and served in its Executive committee as the Secretary till 2005. He was appointed to the Drafting Committee of the Ladakh Hill Council Government’s Vision Document Ladakh 2025 and entrusted with the formulation of the policy on Education and Tourism in 2004. The document was formally launched by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India in 2005. In 2005, Wangchuk was appointed as a member in the National Governing Council for Elementary Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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In 2015, when Ladakh faced a crisis due to a landslide which blocked the Phugtal river in Zanskar and caused formation of 15 km long lake which became a huge threat for the downstream population, Wangchuk proposed to used a siphon technique to drain the lake and water jet erosion to safely cut the edges instead of blasting the lake as was being planned. However, his advice was ignored and blasting work was carried on. On 7 May 2015, the lake finally burst into flash flood which destroyed 12 bridges and many fields.

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Sonam Ranked on the list of most popular Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Sonam Wangchuk celebrates birthday on September 1 of every year.

In 2016, Wangchuk started applying the Ice Stupa technique for disaster mitigation at high altitude glacier lakes. He was invited by Government of Sikkim to apply siphon technique for another dangerous lake in their state. In September 2016, he led a three-week expedition to the Lhonak Glacial Lake in North-West Sikkim, which had been declared dangerous for the last few years. His team camped for two weeks at the lake, amidst rain and snow, installing the first phase of a siphoning system to drain the lake to a safer level until other measures were taken up.

Is Sonam Wangchuk married?

Colonel Sonam Wangchuk MVC
Awards| Maha Vir Chakra
Spouse(s)| Padma Angmo

What is Sonam Wangchuk famous for?

Sonam Wangchuk
Known for| Ice Stupa, SECMOL, Ladags Melong, Operation New Hope
Parents| Sonam Wangyal (father) Tsering Wangmo (mother)

How many patents have Sonam Wangchuk?

An Indian man with more than 400 Patents – Sonam Wangchuk.

How old is Sonam Wangchuk?

55 years (September 1, 1966)

How can I contact Sonam Wangchuk?

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