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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.
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UP Panchayat Elections are scheduled to take place by April 30
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government released the reservation list for the Gram Panchayat elections 2021 for various districts including Azamgarh on Wednesday (March 3). The list was finalized by the Panchayati Raj department.
22 seats of the District Panchayat members are reserved for scheduled caste candidates, 22 for backward castes and 12 for women.
At the block level, a total of 5 seats have been reserved for the scheduled caste candidates. In addition to this, six seats for other backward castes (OBC) and four seats for women candidates are reserved.
The UP Panchayat Elections are scheduled to take place by April 30, in which as many as 57,207 panchayat heads will be elected this year.