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Srinagar<\/strong>: Amid much speculation over holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs amended the J&K Reorganization Act, 2019, giving more powers to the lieutenant governor on matters of transfers and postings of all-India service officers, police, as well as the appointment of judicial officers.<\/p>\n A notification amending the \u2018Transaction of Business Rules\u2019 under the Act was issued by the central government on Friday. \u201cThe President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Transaction of Business of the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Rules, 2019, namely: These rules may be called the Transaction of Business of the Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (Second Amendment) Rules, 2024; they shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette,\u201d the notification stated.<\/p>\n The amendment will give more power to the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir on matters of transfers and postings of all-India service officers like the IAS and IPS, police, law and order as well as the appointment of judicial officers.<\/p>\n In the \u2018Transaction of Business Rules\u2019, sub-rule 2A has been inserted after sub-rule (2) in rule 5.<\/p>\n \u201c(2A)<\/strong> No proposal which requires the previous concurrence of the Finance Department about \u2018Police\u2019, \u2018Public Order\u2019, \u2018All India Service\u2019 and \u2018Anti Corruption Bureau\u2019 to exercise the discretion of the Lieutenant Governor under the Act shall be concurred or rejected unless it has been placed before the Lieutenant Governor through the Chief Secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n In the principal rules, after rule 42, 42A has been inserted giving the L-G power to appoint the advocate general and law officers for the state-turned-union territory.<\/p>\n \u201c42A.<\/strong>\u00a0Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs shall submit the proposal for appointment of Advocate-General and other Law Officers to assist the Advocate-General in the court proceedings, for approval of the Lieutenant Governor through the Chief Secretary and the Chief Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n 42B<\/strong> also makes it clear that proposals regarding the grant or refusal of prosecution sanction or filing of an appeal shall also be bestowed by the LG, who will be the final authority on issues of prisons, directorate of prosecution and forensic science laboratory as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Srinagar: Amid much speculation over holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs amended the J&K Reorganization Act, 2019, giving more powers to the lieutenant governor on matters of transfers and postings of all-India service officers, police, as well as the appointment of judicial officers. A notification amending the \u2018Transaction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34744,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions\/34744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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