UP Panchayat Chunav: Women are coming forward to take charge of the village panchayat in the three-tier panchayat elections to be held in 2021. In Amethi, more than one-third of the seats in the Gram Panchayat elections are reserved for women.
Amethi. In the directive issued by the directorate before the Uttar Pradesh three-tier panchayat election (UP Panchayat Chunav), the reservation status has been cleared to a large extent. In total 232 seats in the district, women of different classes will get an opportunity to contest elections to form the village government. Out of these seats, 56 seats will go to scheduled caste women, 64 seats to other backward class women and 112 seats to general category women. On the direction of the state government, a directive has been issued by the Directorate Panchayati Raj Department to clarify the status of reservation.
reservationAfter the list of the public has become active not only the administration but also those interested in rustic politics. In the list issued by the directorate, it has been told that out of the total 682 gram panchayats in the district, how many gram panchayats will go to which account. According to the released list, out of 682 posts of village head in Amethi, 156 posts will be reserved for scheduled castes. Of these, 100 seats will be reserved for scheduled caste and 56 seats for scheduled caste women. Similarly, out of 181 seats reserved for Other Backward Classes, 64 seats will be reserved for Women of Other Backward Classes and 117 seats for Other Backward Classes. There will be 112 seats which will be reserved for women. In these seats, women of any class have the right to contest elections.
Amethi district will have 233 seats in 682 seats, unreserved
In Amethi district, 233 seats will remain unreserved. On these seats, women from general category to other backward class, scheduled caste or any class will be able to contest elections. After the list is released by the directorate, the Panchayati Raj department of the district has become active. Reservation process can be finalized at local level. For this, details of population etc. are being collected in addition to the earlier reservation.
The politics has also intensified with the preparation of emphasis in the rustic politics after issuing instructions regarding finalization of the manipulative reservation started to form the village government . People’s heart has increased for whose government will be formed in the village. People have also started trying to reserve their village seats according to their own. According to the directive issued from the Directorate of
Reservation, which will be released in March next month, the
work of finalizing the reservation list for various posts will start in the district from February 20. The proposed reservation list will be published between March 2 and 3. Claims and objections will be taken from 4 to 8 March. After disposing of objections and claims between 10 and 12 March, the Panchayati Raj Department will publish the final reservation list on 14 March and send it back to the Directorate on 15 March.
Women will be the first citizens of Amethi district
As the seat of the District Panchayat President in Amethi is reserved for women, there is a possibility of politics intensifying as the three-tier panchayat elections become fierce. With the seat reserved for the woman, such leaders will also be seen active in this election, who would remain silent if the seat was not reserved for the unreserved or female. After the reservation status is decided on the seat, Samajwadi Party, which is already with the ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Congress, which withdrew their nomination in the last election, have also started preparing for the post. The BSP people are also not looking back. It may be noted that in the district panchayat elections held immediately after the formation of the district in the year 2010, the post of district panchayat president was reserved for the scheduled caste women. Kamla Saroj of the Congress was elected the District Panchayat President in this election. However, after forming the SP government in the year 2012, he joined the SP. In the year 2015, this seat was reserved for backward class women. In this election, the SP MLA of Gauriganj nominated Shivkali Maurya and the Congress nominated Krishna Chaurasia. Sivakali was subsequently elected unopposed as Krishna Chaurasia withdrew his nomination.
Block wise reservation status of block head post in Amethi, reservation of
block head post has also been issued by the Directorate of Panchayati Raj. In the released list, in the 13 seats of the district, one each has been reserved for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes Women, two seats each for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes and 3 for Women. 4 seats have been reserved.
Block Name:
Bazarsukla- Mahila, Musafirkhana- Unreserved, Jagdishpur- Female, Bhadar- Female, Bhetua- Unreserved, Sangrampur- OBC Female, Amethi- OBC, Shahgarh- OBC, Jamo- SC Female, Gauriganj- Unreserved, Bahadurpur- SC, Singhpur – SC, Tiloi – Unreserved
list will be public on time
DPRO Shreya Mishra said that a directive has been received from the directorate. Reservation of district panchayat and block chief has been issued. Reservation status will be released on the scheduled date for 36 posts of Zilla Panchayat member, 682 of Gram Pradhan, 880 of Kshetra Panchayat member and 8,613 posts of Gram Panchayat member.
