Key Points
The Parliament on Monday passed the Jammu- Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill and Jammu-Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill 2023, the day the Supreme Court upheld abrogation of Article 370...
After intense and long debate, and even a walkout staged by the Opposition, the two Bills were passed in the upper house by a voice vote first...
The key features of the Bill comprise socially and educationally backward classes that include people residing in villages declared as socially and educationally backwards by the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir, people residing in areas adjoining the Actual Line of Control and International Border, and weak and under-privileged classes (social castes), as notified...
The proposed Bill replaces the term "weak and underprivileged classes" with "other backward classes" as identified by the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, effectively eliminating the definition of weak and underprivileged classes from the Act...
Subsequently, Shah also presented the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, aimed at amending the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019...
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