Jammu and Kashmir has now become a union territory and its status of state has ended. Jammu and Kashmir is divided into two union territories as Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Both the union territories is headed by Girish Chandra Murmu and Radha Krishnan as Lieutenant Governors by replacing Sathya Pal Malik.
Girish Chandra Murmu as the first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
Radha Krishnan Mathur as the first Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.
Girish Chandra Murmu:
- A 1985-batch IAS officer with a reputation for industriousness, Girish Chandra Murmu currently holds the post of Expenditure Secretary in the finance ministry.
- Principal secretary to NarendraModiduring his tenure as Chief Minister of Gujarat.
- GC Murmu who is 59, is one of the youngest governors in the country.
Radha Krishnan Mathur:
- MrMathur is a retired IAS officer of the 1977 batch belonged to Tripura cadre.
- He had served as the chief Information commissioner, a post he demitted in November 2018.
- Mathur had retired as the India’s Defence Secretary, two years after being appointed to the post on 25 May 2013.
- He was also the Defence Production Secretaryof India, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Secretaryof India and the Chief Secretary of Tripura.
Powers of Lieutenant Governor:
By the rules of the Senate, the lieutenant governor establishes all special and standing committees, appoints all chairpersons and members, and assigns all Senate legislation to the committee of his choice.
The lieutenant governor decides all questions of parliamentary procedure in the Senate.
About the Laws:
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will have a Lieutenant Governor and the maximum strength of its assembly will be 107, which will be enhanced to 114 after a delimitation exercise.
Twenty-four seats of the Assembly will continue to remain vacant as they fall under Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
What will be changed ?:
- The tenure of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will be five years compared to six years earlier. In the LokSabha, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will have five MPs while the Ladakh will have two.
- Four sitting RajyaSabha MPs will continue to be members of the upper house from the state.
- The Legislative Council of Jammu and Kashmir stands abolished. Jammu and Kashmir was one of the seven states to have a legislative council. Now, only six states have upper house in their legislatures.
- The bureaucracy of Jammu And Kashmir State would be divided between the two successor Union Territories.
- The officers posted in Jammu and Kashmir – after allocation of respective Union Territory – will continue to be part of their existing cadre. However, future posting will be made from the officers of AGMUT (Arunchal Goa Mizoram Union Territory) cadre.
- Laws passed by Parliament are now applicable to Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
- Earlier, Article 370 prevented the automatic application of such laws in Jammu and Kashmir.
Other key laws and jurisdictions:
- Right to Information
- Right to Education
- Panchayati Raj Institutions
- Rights of Hindus and Sikhs as minority communities
- Reservation of seats for SCs and STs in legislature, jobs and education
- Scrutiny of government expenditure by the Comptroller and Auditor General
- Right of Indians from other states to own property and settle in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh
- Under the new constitutional arrangement in Jammu and Kashmir, women now get freedom from being subjected to Sharia. A Kashmiri woman will not be denied the right to inheritance if she marries a person from other parts of the country.
- Pakistani nationals will now not be eligible for Indian citizenship by marrying Indian women from Kashmir.
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