Srinagar : Jammu & Kashmir’s State Election Commissioner, Kewal Kumar Sharma would replace Hirdesh Kumar as a member of the delimitation commission constituted by the Central government earlier this year for Assembly and Parliamentary segments of J&K Union Territory, sources disclosed.
Sources in the government said that Sharma would now be part of the three-member delimitation commission headed by former Supreme Court Judge Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai.
The Election Commissioner Sushil Kumar Chandra is other member of the panel.
Constituted in March this year, the panel is mandated to fix the boundaries of 90 Assembly segments of J&K and reserve seats for schedule castes and scheduled tribes within them.
It has also been empowered to undertake the delimitation of five parliamentary segments of J&K UT.
The Commission has been constituted under J&K Reorganization Act,2019, and Delimitation Commission Act, 2002.
Sharma, who was an advisor to J&K LG, resigned last week and was appointed as first full-fledged SEC