Hyderabad: Despite the Opposition crying foul against the Ordinance on the BC reservations ahead of the panchayat polls, the officials concerned have plunged into finalizing the reservation category and lists of wards and sarpanches in the State. Followed by a directive from Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, the officials have instructed the District Collectors to complete the process of identifying the wards and sarpanches reservation-wise and those of non-reservation.
The State government has clarified the issue by taking a key decision of an ordinance for 50 per cent reservations as per Supreme Court directive for the upcoming local bodies’ polls. The government plans to take more time to hold panchayat elections as the deadline of January 10 by the High Court was insufficient. The State Election Commission was preparing for the polls.
According to the information, the State government has fixed reservation as follows 23.81 per cent for BCs, 20.46 per cent for SCs and 5.73 per cent for STs. It is said that the Panchayat Raj Department is to direct district administration and revenue officials, including MPDOs across the State to finalize the reservations in wards and for Sarpanches accordingly.
As per 2011 Census data and information available, the district administration is involved in the job of finalizing the seats for women in reserve and non- reserve categories for the polls. The officials are busy finalizing the lists of the wards and sarpanches and will finalize reservations in the non-schedule area followed by SC and ST population and BCs reservation will be finalized in the remaining areas followed by Panchayat Raj Act-2018. Automatically 50 per cent reservations will be implemented in non-schedule areas and 100 per cent for the STs in schedule areas. The Collectors will finalize the details of Sarpanches and MPDOs will do so on the wards in the panchayats.
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