The Jammu and Kashmir administration named 20 nodal officers for liaisoning with the J&K Delimitation Commission, which finished its four-day visit to the UT, at the district level on Friday.
Ghulam Hassan Sheikh, ADC Anantnag, has been named the nodal officer for the Anantnag district, according to an order issued by the General Administration Department.
Nodal officers for the respective districts are:
Parvaiz Rahim, ACR Bandipora, Rafiq Ahmad Lone,
ACR Baramulla, Akramulla Tak, ADC Budgam, Mohd Idrees Lone, Deputy District Election Officer, Doda, Farooq Ahmad Baba, ADC Ganderbal, Satish Kumar, ADC Jammu, Sandeep Seiontra, ACR Kathua, Sham Lal, ADC Kishtwar, Showkat Ahmad Rather, ADC Kulgam, Shabir Ahmad Wani, Assistant Commissioner Panchayat Kupwara, Abdul Sattar, ADC Poonch, Nowshad Ahmad Rather, District Statistical and Evaluation Officer Pulwama, Sachin Dev Singh, ADC Rajouri, Harbans Lal, ADC Ramban, Sanjay Kumar Badyal, ACR Reasi, Rajeev Magotra, Deputy District Election Officer Samba, Rizwan Asgar, Assistant Commissioner Panchayat Shopian, S Sandeep Singh Bali, Assistant Commissioner Nazool Srinagar and Shavi, Deputy District Election Officer Udhampur.
“The nodal officers shall be responsible for assisting deputy Commissioners in providing timely information as may be sought by the Commission. Receiving representations from stakeholders for submission to the Commission and any other work as may be assigned by the Commission,” reads the order issued by Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, commissioner secretary to the UT government.
The commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, was established in March 2020 to redraw the Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Nagaland.
There are roughly nine months left for the commission to conclude the exercise. For the first time in J&K, it will carve out constituencies for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
