By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: The 3-member Delimitation Fee on Jammu and Kashmir, headed by way of Justice (retd) Ranjana Desai, on Thursday signed the overall order on redrawing the meeting constituencies of the Union Territory, an afternoon ahead of its time period used to be to finish, officers stated.
A replica of this order and the record, detailing the choice of constituencies and their measurement, will likely be submitted to the federal government and then the order will likely be issued via a gazette notification. The fee has proposed expanding the choice of seats within the UT from 83 to 90.
But even so, there are 24 seats in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) that proceed to stay vacant. For the primary time, 9 seats had been proposed for Scheduled Tribes. The panel has additionally proposed six further seats for Jammu and one for Kashmir.
As of now, the Kashmir department has 46 seats and the Jammu department 37. Shaped in March 2020, the panel used to be granted a one-year extension remaining yr.
The panel has Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the state election commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir as its ex-officio contributors.
In February, it used to be once more given a two-month extension to finish its activity. Its time period used to be to differently finish on March 6.