To provide medical assistance to the region's residents, there is a solitary CHC hospital, Education is facilitated through the Aga Syed Haider Rizvi Memorial Higher Secondary School.

The Sankoo region is composed of multiple villages, such as Sangra, Stakpa, Umba, Lankarchay, Thasgam, Barso, Farona, and Nagma Kousar, each contributing their unique flavor to the local community.

In February 2020, In freezing temperatures of minus 10 °C, approximately 3,000 people assembled in Sankoo, located in Kargil, to demand district status for their region.

They argue that the area is remote and several parts are cut off from the district headquarters in Kargil during the heavy snow winter months, making service delivery a complicated challenge for the people of Zanskar and Sankoo.

As a result of global warming, the most widely reported impact is a rapid shrinking of glaciers, which has profound future implications for downstream water resources.

There is also a place of pilgrimage, the shrine of a Muslim scholar-saint, Sayed Mir Hashim, who was invited from Kashmir to impart the religious teachings to the region's Buddhist ruler, Thi-Namgyal of the Suru principality, following his conversion to Islam in the 16th century.