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Jammu Kashmir Elections: The Election Commission in Jammu and Kashmir has started the revision of the voter list after the process of delimitation. The draft voter list will be ready by August 31.
The Election Commission has declared the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu Kashmir Assembly Elections 2022Preparations have been intensified for getting it done. The Election Commission has started the revision of voter list in Jammu and Kashmir after the process of delimitation and the draft voter list will be prepared by August 31. Sources have given this information on Wednesday. Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and Election Commissioner Anoop Chandra Pandey conducted the review and the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)Jammu Kashmir) Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to prepare a map of the new boundaries of the assembly constituencies. There is a need to revise the voter list before the first assembly election of the union territory.
Instructions have also been given for the appointment of officers to update the voter list. Re-fixation of serial numbers, delimitation and renaming of polling stations will be done before June 30. Along with this, the place for the polling stations will be selected in the villages where there is a need to set up new polling stations. After delimitation, some of the earlier polling stations may come under more than one new assembly constituency or they may be shifted to another area entirely.
90 assembly seats
The appointment of booth level officers and appropriate training will be given by July 5. The verification of polling stations will be done till July 25. Sources said that the draft voter list will be prepared by August 31. Last month, the central government issued a notification saying that the orders of the Delimitation Commission will be effective from May 20. The boundaries of the assembly constituencies were redrawn through the notification. The two orders of the commission include the March 14 order relating to the number of constituencies reserved for different categories and the May 5 order relating to the size of each constituency.
On the basis of its report, future assembly elections will be held in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The Delimitation Commission increased six assembly seats in the Jammu region and one in the Kashmir Valley and brought Rajouri and Poonch regions under the Anantnag parliamentary seat. According to the orders of the Delimitation Commission, there will be 90 assembly seats in the Union Territory. 43 in Jammu division and 47 in Kashmir. Nine of those seats will be reserved for Scheduled Tribes. The erstwhile assembly had 87 seats, including 37 in Jammu, 46 in Kashmir and four in Ladakh.
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