Pauri District Magistrate Chandresh Kumar said that the allotment of the reserved seats in Gram Panchayat, Block Panchayat and District Panchayat for the three-tier Panchayat election has been completed after the delimitation on the basis of 2011 census and the list has been uploaded on the Government website on Tuesday.
The list will be finalised after the claims and objections regarding this are cleared on January 11. Chief Development Officer Navneet Pandey said that following the delimitation on the basis of 2011 census, the seats of Gram Panchayats, Block Panchayats and District Panchayats have been affected. The number of Block Panchayat seats has decreased from 429 to 401, while the number of District Panchayat seats has decreased from 48 to 42 and the number of Gram Panchayat seats has been decreased marginally to 1214 from 1216.
The difference in the number of Panchayat seats has been caused by the difference in population stated in the census of 2001 and 2011. The Government had earlier conducted delimitation for Panchayat elections on the basis of the 2001 census.
He said that due to the variation of population, two blocks have come under the OBC reservation category. According to District Panchayat Raj Officer, of the District Panchayat member seats, eight are reserved for scheduled caste including four for SC women, one for OBC women, 17 for women and 16 are unreserved. The Block Panchayat member seats include six reserved for SC including three for SC women, one for OBC women, eight for women and eight unreserved in Pauri block, in Kot block five are reserved for SC, including three for SC women, one for OBC women, seven for women and seven unreserved; in Kaljikhal block seven seats are reserved for SC including four for SC women, eight for women and eight are unreserved; in Khirsu block four seats are reserved for SC, including two for SC women, nine for women and eight are unreserved; in Paubo block five are reserved for SC including three for SC women, 12 for women and 11 are unreserved; in Ekeshwar block four are reserved for SC including two for SC women, 10 for women and nine are unreserved; in Rikhnikhal block six are reserved for SC including three for SC women, nine for women and nine are unreserved; in Beerokhal block six are reserved for SC including three for SC women, one for OBC women, 13 for women and 13 are unreserved; in Thalisain six are reserved for SC including three for SC women, one for OBC women.
17 for women and 16 are unreserved; in Nainidanda block five are reserved for SC including three for SC women, 11 for women and 10 are unreserved; in Yamkeshwar block six are reserved for SC including three for SC women, 12 for women and 12 are unreserved; in Duggada block six are reserved for SC including three for women, one for OBC women, 17 for women and 16 are unreserved; in Jaiharikhal block four are reserved for SC including two for SC women, nine for women and eight are unreserved; in Dwarikhal block six are reserved for SC including three for SC women, one for OBC women, 12 for women and 11 are unreserved while in Pokhra block four seats have been reserved for SC including two for SC women, eight for women and eight seats have been kept unreserved following the delimitation.