Updated: Thursday, March 4, 2021, 14:00 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 04: Ahead of the three-tier Uttar Pradesh Gram Panchayat Elections 2021 in April, the election authorities have released the reservation list for some of the seats. With this, the candidates now know from where they can contest the State Gram Panchayat Elections 2021.
The election authorities released the reservation list for Varanasi, Kannoj, Rampur, Sambhal, Kasganj, Amethi, Moradabad, Meerut, Ballia, Fatehpur, Hardoi, Ghaziabad, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Bhadohi, Banda, Pratapgarh, Firozabad, and Agra.
The government also ordered that the seats which were reserved for the scheduled caste (SCs), scheduled tribe (STs) and other backward classes (OBCs) categories earlier will not be reserved for the same categories this year.
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The reservation system that was in place from 1995 to 2015 will be implemented. (Representational image)
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has laid out the reservation policy for the upcoming Panchayat elections in the state stating that seats that were reserved in 2015 elections will not be reserved in the forthcoming polls.
Out of the total 75 seats in the Panchayat elections, likely to be held in April, a total of 48 seats will be reserved while 27 seats will remain unreserved.Â
Among 48 seats that will be reserved in the upcoming panchayat polls will comprise 16 for SC, 20 for Backward Classes and 12 for women.