Updated: Monday, March 15, 2021, 17:13 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 15: The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday ruled that the base year for applying reservation on seats by rotation will be 2015.
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A bench comprising Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Manish Mathur gave the decision on the PIL filed by one Ajai Kumar.
The Uttar Pradesh government is expected to release the final list of reserved seats on 17 March, 2021, while the court passed the interim order, restraining authorities from finalising the list for panchayat polls.
Ajai Kumar, the petitioner said the government had issued the UP Panchayat Raj (Reservation and Allotment of Seats and Offices) Rules in 1994 , whereby it had provided 1995 as the base to reserve seats on rotation.