UP Gram Panchayat Election 2021 Seat List: Reservation list for polls to be released today, details

Against the background of the forthcoming panchayat elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the administration will put out the reservation list of seats. The list will be issued by district magistrates. The list will prepare the ground for candidates to know from where they are eligible to fight elections.

As per reports in the media, the conclusive list is cleared after all objections and will be published on Tuesday. The government had earlier set 15th March as the last day for the list to be published.

The three-tier panchayat elections are set to take place in April. The polls will decide a total of 57,207 heads.

Earlier, the Allahabad High Court had asked the Uttar Pradesh Election Commission to conduct panchayat elections by 30th April 2021 as it turned down the poll panel’s undertaking to hold the rural civic body polls by May 2021. The HC had noted that as per the mandate of the Constitution, the election of the panchayat should have been conducted on or before January 13, 2021.

In particular, after the end of the five-year term of Uttar Pradesh gram panchayats and village panchayat head on 25th December 2020, the Uttar Pradesh government had ordered the district administration to take over the panchayat administration. Assistant development officers were then installed and given the responsibility of the panchayat administrators of all panchayat bodies.

Following the High Court's decree, the state government put out the reservation policy for the panchayat elections. The government said that reservation by rotation will be put into effect during the panchayat elections. The reservation system in place for the elections from 1995 to 2015 will be taken into account in the new policy, Additional Chief Secretary, Panchayati Raj, Manoj Kumar Singh said.

"The order of Scheduled Castes (SC), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and women in the previous election will be taken into account in the reservation policy. Preference would be given to seats which have never been reserved till now," Singh had said.

Currently, Uttar Pradesh has 826 vikas khands (development blocks), and more than 58,000 gram sabhas. There are 7,31,813 wards in the gram sabhas, and 75,855 wards in kshetra panchayats and 30,051 wards in 75 zila panchayats.

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