The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 modifies the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
The Act of 2019 specified the number of seats in the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) Legislative Assembly to be 83 (excluding seats designated for areas falling in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir), with 6 of those seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs), but none for Scheduled Tribes (STs).
The Bill increases the total number of seats to 90, while reserving 7 seats for SCs and 9 seats for STs.
It further grants the Lieutenant Governor (LG) the authority to nominate two members from the Kashmiri migrant community, one of whom must be a woman.
The Bill also allows the LG to nominate a representative for displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, if the displacement occurred in 1947-48, 1965, or 1971.
Source: Barandbench
