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Adoption of J&K Panchayati Raj Act watershed moment in the history of UT: LG
10/22/2020 1:21:05 AM

Early times Report

Srinagar, Oct 21: Terming the Union Cabinet’s approval of adaptation of the J&K Panchayati Raj Act, 1989 as a watershed moment in the history of the Union territory, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for paving way for the establishment of all three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Jammu and Kashmir. An official spokesperson said here that the Government of India has fully applied the 73rd Constitutional Amendment 1992 to the UT of J&K, which was pending for the past 28 years.
‘’With this, all three tiers of Panchayati Raj Institutions shall be formed for the first time in the history of Jammu and Kashmir,’’ he said.
The Lt Governor observed that a major and final legal requirement towards strengthening the grass-root democracy and the bottom-up approach towards planning and execution has been fulfilled and the historic step shall result in direct representation of people in the district level body through direct election to 14 seats in the District Development Council.
‘’A proper system of checks and balances through membership of directly elected members, Block Development Council chairpersons and MLAs in the District Development Council will ensure that the most genuine demands and needs of people are met,’’ he added.
The spokesperson said that after the adaptation of J&K Panchayati Raj Act,1989, every district will have a District Development Council having jurisdiction over the entire district, excluding Municipal areas.
‘’Every District Development Council will now have 14 directly elected members, which means 280 directly elected BDC members in the whole UT. Every District Development Council shall consist of the directly elected members, Chairpersons of all BDCs and members of the Legislative Assembly from the district,’’ he said.
Moreover, he said any person whose name is included in the electoral of any Halqa Panchayat of the district can nominate himself as a candidate for election to the District Development Council.
‘’After this development, every District Development Council will now have a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson, who shall be elected by directly elected members of BDC. Further, there shall be reservations for the SC/ST among the directly elected members on the basis of the proportion of the population. One-third of seats under direct election will be reserved for women,’’ he said.
Further, he said five Standing Committees, one each for Finance, Development, Public Works, Health & Education and Welfare, will now be constituted in every District Development Council.
‘’The ADDC will be the Chief Executive Officer of the District Development Council. The DDC will be responsible for the formulation of development programmes and speedy development and economic upliftment of the area of the district under its authority.
‘’The DDC will review the progress and achievements of development plans and schemes in the district. Ensuring adequate legal backing to devolution of functions to the DDC, specific functions will be assigned to DDC in schedule III of the Act.
‘’The DDC will also supervise the functioning of Panchayat Halqas and BDC and will receive and consolidate their plans at the district level,’’ he said.
He said the government of J&K has also notified the rules for the constitution of the DDC and the process for delimitation of constituencies for DDC has already been set in motion in all 20 districts.
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