Jammu, Dec 31: Parliament gives its nod to two crucial bills granting reservation to Other Backward Classes for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir and nomination of two Kashmiri Pandits including a woman and one from Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir refugees.
This is a bill to give rights and representation to displaced people, by giving reservation to displaced Kashmiris. Two Kashmiri Pandits, one of them a woman, will be nominated to the UT Assembly after the elections.
Similarly, the reservation to OBCs for which the bill was passed by the Parliament and assent given by the President, also got a prominent space in the MHA’s year-end review.
The bill granted reservation to OBCs in educational institutions and Government jobs for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir. However, percentage of the reservation is yet to be fixed.
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