Jammu & Kashmir delimitation panel begins the job
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The delimitation fee for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has kicked off the train by writing to all 20 District Commissioners (DC), in search of primary demographic, topographic info in addition to the native administration’s impressions of political aspirations of the district.
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According to authorities sources, the letter went out to all DCs in June first week, and whereas the fee requested for a response inside two days, it was despatched off, by all DCs, at the finish of the week.
The fee was arrange in February-March 2020 to delineate Assembly and parliamentary constituencies and given a yr’s extension in March final. It is simply after the completion of the delimitation train that elections for the Assembly will be held, though District Development Council (DDC) polls had been held final yr on earlier patterns and based mostly on the 2011 census.
The 2002-2008 train
The then State of Jammu and Kashmir was stored out of the delimitation train when it was carried out in the remainder of nation (between 2002-2008), as delimitation of Assembly seats was below the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution and its separate Representation of People Act. After changing into a Union Territory, the delimitation fee was constituted and requested to mark out Assembly and Parliament seats.
The fee, headed by Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai and comprising two different members, had known as for a gathering in February 2021, the place solely two of its 5 affiliate members– Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Singh, MP, attended, and others reminiscent of National Conference leaders Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Hasnain Masoodi, MP, and Mohammad Akbar Lone didn’t attend.
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The renewed push by the Central authorities for talks has raised hopes not solely of early Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir but additionally of an eventual restoration of statehood, which was taken away below the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, a studying down of Article 370 of the Constitution. For all this, the delimitation train, a laborious and delicate means of carving out parliamentary and Assembly seats, must be carried out. With this primary communication, the delimitation fee has raised hopes that the course of has begun its inevitable course.
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