Srinagar: Setting the stage for election for chairpersons of District Development Councils in Jammu & Kashmir, the administration on Monday unveiled rules for reservation of these seats.
According to a notification issued by the Department of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, one-third of the total number of seats for the offices of chairperson of DDC shall be reserved for women.
The allocation of seats of chairperson to be reserved for women shall be made on a three-point roster system after arranging them alphabetically.
As per the roster, the first and second seat shall be open while the third seat shall be reserved for women.
According to the rules, the offices of chairpersons of the DDCs shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of such offices in the DDCs as the population of Scheduled Caste or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Union Territory bears to the total population of the Union Territory by applying the principles of mathematic round off with the part fraction of 0.5 and above be rounded off to 1 and part fraction below 0.5 being ignored for the each DDC separately.
“The number of seats of chairpersons to be reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes shall be allotted to different DDCs on the basis of population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in such DDCs in the descending order, i.e. from amongst all the DDCs in the Union Territory, the DDC having the largest population of Scheduled Tribe shall be allotted to the Scheduled Tribes category and the DDC having the largest population of the Scheduled Castes population shall be allowed to Scheduled Castes category,” read the rules.
Going by the rules, the State Election Commission will soon issue an order for reservation of offices of chairpersons of DCCs in accordance with these rules
