90% Of BDC Voters Missing In Three Kashmir Districts

Block Development Council chairpersons are to be elected in Jammu & Kashmir on Oct 24 by sarpanches and panches of the respective blocks, but over 90% of these posts of would-be electors lie vacant in two districts in the Valley. Pulwama, for instance, should have had 1,710 electors for its 11 blocks, but there are only 132 of them on the electoral rolls, the remaining seats (92.3%) being vacant. Similarly, in Shopian, vacancy’s 90.8% with just 82 electors where there should have been 889. Kulgam isn’t much better, with an 89% vacancy.