The reservation for OBC will be increased in the municipal bodies of state.

Chamoli: Justice (Retired) BS Verma, submitted a report to CM Pushkar Singh Dhami at the Chief Minister’s residence on Friday. OBC reservation will increase in the municipal bodies of the state. The single-member dedicated commission has recommended increasing the seats in all municipal bodies from Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chairman, Municipality President, Nagar Panchayat President to Councilor, Councilor, Ward Member.

Now the government will move ahead after studying this report. In this report, he has recommended increasing the seats according to OBC reservation for mayors, chairmen and municipal heads in nine municipal corporations, 41 municipalities and 45 town panchayats.

Corporations is increasing from 14 to 18.05 percent, the reservation of Chairman in Municipal Corporations is increasing from 14 to 28.10 percent and the reservation of Chairman in Nagar Panchayats is increasing from 14 to 38.97 percent. However, as per the instructions of the Supreme Court, the committee has not allowed the number of reserved seats to exceed 50 percent of the total seats anywhere.

Despite OBC reservation being high, seats have been given less in many bodies. The important thing is that this time in municipal corporations, instead of one, two seats of mayor will be reserved for OBCs. It has been recommended to reserve 16 seats of president in municipalities and 82 seats of president in Nagar Panchayats for OBC candidates.

Similarly, it has been recommended to reserve 82 councilor seats in municipal corporations, 102 councilor seats in municipalities and 54 seats in nagar panchayats for ward members. The government had constituted a single-member dedicated commission under the chairmanship of Justice BS Verma in the year 2022.