| Its official now, terms of all ULBs will expire in Nov | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 1: Ending all speculations and rumours, the Union Territory administration on Wednesday made it clear that terms of all Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) including the Jammu and Srinagar municipal corporations will culminate by the end of November.
According to an order issued on November 1, 2023, by the Housing and Urban Development Department to the Director Urban Local Bodies, it has been clarified that terms of all ULBs will end with the expiry of their terms.
“In terms of sections 13 and 14 of the Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Act 2000 and Section 5 (1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporation Act 2000, it is explicitly clear that the relevant and reckoning date for computation of five years of term of the members of the Corporations, Councils, and Committees and their duration shall be the date appointed for the first meeting. Therefore, the term of the members and the duration of the Corporations, Councils, and Committees shall expire after the lapse of five years from the date of appointed for the first meeting of the respective Corporations, Councils and Committees”, the order reads.
As per reports, the five-year term of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) will end on November 14 and term of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) will expire on November 5. The term of most of the other Municipal Councils and Committees is scheduled to end of November.
As per the Acts of Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporations and Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Committees, powers of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor and Chairpersons of Councils and Committees will switch over to the Commissioners of Corporations and Administrators of Councils and Committees.
As per the provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Municipal Corporations Act, powers of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor are vested with the Commissioners of their term cease to exist. Similar is the provision for Municipal Councils and Committees, where powers of the Chairpersons shift to Administrators. |
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