RS Passes J and K Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill

 Rajya Sabha passed the " Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Act 2021" on February 8, 2021 by voice vote. 

Highlights:

♦ The bill seeks to replace the decree to merge the cadres of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and the civil servants of Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, and Mizoram Confederate Territories (AGMUT). 

♦ The bill was introduced in the upper house of parliament. The bill will also increase the number of officers in the Union territories of Jammu, Kashmir and Leh. 

♦ After Article 370 of the region was revoked, the "Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Act 2021" was passed and the "Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act" was promulgated in 2019. 

♦ The 2019 Act re-divided Jammu and Kashmir into two states on October 31, 2019, namely Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. It restructured the area of J&K, which has always been part of the larger area of Kashmir, which is a dispute between India, Pakistan and China.

♦ Voice voting is a voting method for voting on a certain topic or motion in the parliamentary procedure. It is the simplest and fastest voting method used in the negotiation assembly. 

♦ First, the host or conference chairperson submits the question to the conference. Then ask all those who agree to the motion to speak ("Yea" or "Yes"). Later, he asked all those who opposed the motion to speak out ("No" or "Nay"). 

♦ The host then counts on both parties and explains the result. Voice voting has disadvantages because the volume of the voice is only an estimate, and is not actually measured with a sound level meter.