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| Delimitation Commission to submit final report next week | | Seats to swell from existing 83 to 90, 24 for POJK | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 29: The findings of the much-hyped Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir are soon going to be public with revelations about the number and size of the constituencies also being declared in days to come.
Reports inform that the Delimitation Commission will soon submit the report to the government. After this, by issuing a gazette notification, the commission will also inform the public about the number and size of new assembly constituencies.
Information about the number and size of assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir will be available next week.
According to sources, after this, the commission will issue a gazette notification and inform the public about the number and size of the new assembly constituencies. The commission has proposed to increase the number of seats from the present 83 to 90. Of these, 24 seats are in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, which will remain vacant for the time being.
For the first time, nine seats have been proposed for Scheduled Tribes.
The panel has also proposed six seats for Jammu and one additional seat for Kashmir.
At present, there are 46 seats for Kashmir and 37 for Jammu. The previous Delimitation Commission took seven years to submit the report and gave the award in 1995. This commission has taken a little more than two years despite the corona epidemic.
The commission, constituted in March 2020, was given an extension of one year last year. Its term was to end on March 6. It was given an additional two months in February to complete the work.
The commission is headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai.
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and State Election Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir are ex-officio members.
The government had on March 6, 2020, constituted the Delimitation Commission, to be headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, to redraw Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Nagaland. Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and state election commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir and the four states were appointed as its ex-officio members. The commission was tasked to delimit the constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, a Law Ministry notification had earlier said.
While splitting Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories in August 2019, the Union Home Ministry had increased the Assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir by seven, taking the total to 114, 24 of which are reserved for PoJK while the election will be held for 90 seats. |
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