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Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed ur Rehmaan Parra has moved a Bill successful the J&K Assembly to pitch for administrative part presumption for the Chenab vale and the Pir Panjal vale successful the Jammu division.
Submitted arsenic a backstage subordinate Bill, titled The Jammu and Kashmir Territorial Administrative Reorganisation Bill, 2026, the PDP seeks caller administrative divisions, including a Chenab Division with office astatine Doda and a Pir Panjal Division with office astatine Rajouri, successful summation to the existing Jammu and Kashmir divisions.
The Bill besides pressed for caller districts successful Jammu arsenic good arsenic Kashmir. “The Bill proposes to empower the authorities to delegate caller districts to Jammu, Kashmir, Chenab oregon Pir Panjal divisions taking into relationship factors specified arsenic geographical continuity, administrative convenience, socio-cultural cohesion and balanced determination development,” it reads.
It suggested determination were “challenges arising from immense geographical spread, hard terrain and determination disparities”. The Bill, the PDP said, seeks to “institutionalise a transparent mechanics for the instauration of caller administrative units to fortify decentralised governance and amended nationalist work delivery”.
The J&K Assembly, which volition conscionable connected March 26 successful Jammu, has earmarked March 30 and April 1 for backstage members’ bills.
