13 Additional Municipal Councils To Be Set Up In Jammu And Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir will get 13 more municipal councils as the Administrative Council of the Union territory approved up-gradation of all district-level municipal committees along with the creation of new committees. The decision will raise the number of municipal councils to 19 in a bid to strengthen urban local bodies by increasing their human resource capacities and streamline cadre management.

The Administrative Council, which met under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor G C Murmu on Wednesday night, accorded sanction for upgrading all municipal committees at district headquarters and those with a population of more than 30,000 as per 2011 Census after following due process, an official spokesman said.

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