Lok Sabha passes Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill
Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 are passed by LS
New-Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 are passed by Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
The bills, namely the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, were introduced in the Parliament in July this year to implement reservations in the legislative assembly, jobs and professional institutes of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 for reservation in jobs and admission to professional institutions to members of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and other socially and educationally backward classes.
The Bill substitutes weak and under-privileged classes’ with ‘other backward classes as such by the Government from time to time and deletes the definition of weak and under-privileged classes.
The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
The Act of 2019 specified the number of seats in the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly to be 83 (excluding seats designated for areas falling in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir), with 6 of those seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs), but none for Scheduled Tribes (STs).
The Bill increases the total number of seats to 90 while reserving 7 seats for SCs and 9 seats for STs.
Ms Kalinga