Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh authorities has launched the reservation checklist for the place of mayors and chairpersons of the city native our bodies within the state.
Residents of Lucknow, Kanpur, and Ghaziabad are going to elect a girl mayor as soon as once more as for the second consecutive time, the mayoral positions in these cities have been reserved for girls.
Overall, six out of 17 mayoral positions have been earmarked for girls candidates. Eight out of the 17 mayoral positions have been left unreserved (Ayodhya, Mathura-Vrindavan, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, Bareilly, Aligarh, Prayagraj, and Varanasi).
Agra municipal company has been reserved for SC ladies, whereas Shahjahanpur and Firozabad cities have been reserved for OBC ladies. Jhansi will get an SC mayor whereas Saharanpur and Meerut cities can have OBC mayors governing the native municipal companies.
A complete of 760 people, who will head the 17 nagar nigams (municipal companies), 199 nagar palikas (municipal councils), and 544 nagar panchayats (city councils), are going to be elected by the upcoming native physique polls. All the political events within the state are going to arrange their technique primarily based on the amended reservation checklist.
Urban growth Minister A.Okay. Sharma stated that suggestions of the devoted backward lessons fee have been applied by the state authorities by the newest reservation checklist.
While the general reservation for the OBC neighborhood has been capped at 27 p.c just like the final time, the state authorities will give larger illustration as general 288 seats out of the 760 have been reserved for girls candidates (together with common, OBC, SC, and ST communities).
Last time, when the state had introduced the reservation earlier than the fee had ascertained the political backwardness of the OBCs, the state on December 5 had reserved 255 seats for girls candidates. “As a result, the proportion of the women candidates who will contest in the local body polls will go up from 33 percent to 38 percent,” stated an officer.
The seats allotted to OBC candidates will stay the identical as 205 positions (together with ladies OBC reservation) are going to be supplied to the neighborhood members. Similarly, key positions for SC candidates have been elevated from 102 to 110 whereas these for STs have been elevated to 2 from earlier 1.
