Chalunka

Chalunka (also known as Chalunkha or Chulungkha) is a village in the Chorbat area of the Shyok River valley in Ladakh, India. At the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, it was on the cease-fire line agreed between the India and Pakistan. The village is now interior to the Indian-administered Kashmir as further territory to the north of it was captured in Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
The Chalunka village is in the Nubra tehsil and the Turtuk community development block.
Operations in 1971.
On 10 December 1971, the Ladakh Scouts under the command of Major Chewang Rinchen cleared the village of the Pakistani forces (two companies of Karakoram Scouts). Advancing further, they attacked Turtuk on 11 December, and captured it by 14 December.
Demographics.
According to the 2011 census of India, Chulungkha has 42 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 91.1%.