RESERVED
SEATS IN J&K ASSEMBLY - POLITY
News:
114
seats, migrant quota cleared for J&K Assembly
What's
in the news?
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The Lok Sabha passed two Bills to extend
the provisions of the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act – that grants 33% reservation
for women in Parliament and State legislatures – to the Union Territories of
Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir.
Key
takeaways:
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Lok Sabha has passed Jammu & Kashmir
Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation
(Amendment) Bill, 2023.
Key
Provisions:
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The Bill increases the total seats to 90.
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It reserves
seven seats for Scheduled Castes
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Nine
seats for Scheduled Tribes.
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Replace the term weak and underprivileged
classes (social castes) in the J&K Reservation Act, 2004 to other backward
classes class
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Empowers the Lieutenant-Governor to nominate 3 members in the Assembly.
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Two members from the Kashmiri migrant
community including one woman
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Third member should be a representative of
people from PoK who took refuge in India following the wars with Pakistan in
1947, 1965 and 1971.