Bhubaneswar, January 15: The Housing & Urban Development Department on Saturday issued a notification issuing draft reservation list of chairpersons of 107 Municipalities and Notified Area Councils (NACs) of the State.
As per the notification, the office of Chairperson in 54 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) has been reserved for women candidates, including 9 ULBs for Scheduled Caste (woman), five for Scheduled Tribe (woman) and 40 for women. Similarly, the Chairperson post in eight other ULBs reserved for Scheduled Caste and three for Scheduled Tribe, while 42 others are under unreserved category.
The Department has sought objections/suggestions from all stakeholders and the general public on the draft reservation list within a period of 15 days.
“Any objection and suggestion which may be received by the Director Municipal Administration (DMA) from any person interested on or before the expiry of the period so specified above shall be considered by the State Government,” read the notification.
Recently, the H&UD Department had issued a draft notification on reservation of the Mayor seat for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) and Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC). While Mayor post has been reserved for woman in BMC and BeMC, CMC has been kept unreserved.
