Union Law & Justice Ministry issued a notice declaring May 20 as the date on which the order of the delimitation commission comes into force.
Two seats will be nominated out of the Kashmiri Pandit community and in a significant development, both members thus nominated would have voting rights like the elected members. The commission has not created any delimitation for the 24 seats reserved for the Pakistan-occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu and Kashmir delimitation commission’s order on electoral segments in the Union Territory came into force after the Central government issued the notification in this regard earlier.
The delimitation commission was headed by Justice (Retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai, former chief election commissioner of India, Sushil Chandra, and J&K election commissioner KK Gupta.
In its reorganization of electoral segments, the commission has delimited 90 assembly seats for J&K out of which 47 are for the Kashmir division 43 for the Jammu division.
For the first time, 9 seats have been reserved for scheduled tribe (ST) candidates and 7 for the scheduled caste (SC) candidates.
The Home Ministry notifies new rules saying that now anyone can buy land in Jammu and Kashmir. The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notification to this effect. However, those who purchase land will have limited options.