Centre Corrects 52 Mistakes In ‘Hastily Drafted’ J&K Reorganisation Bill thewire.in

A missing ‘i’, an additional ‘t’ and the year 1909 becoming 1951 – the Central government made over 50 glaring errors in the legislation to bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir, which the opposition alleged was brought in “hastily” last month. After over a month, the government came out with the fix on Thursday – a three-page corrigenda announcing the corrections in the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act.

The legislation was passed by parliament on August 7 and the gazette notification was issued on August 9 after President Ram Nath Kovind gave his stamp of approval. In the Act, “Administrator” became “Adminstrator”, “article” became “artcle”, “territories” became “Tterritories”, “Shariat” became “Shariet” and “Safai Karamcharis” became “Safaikaramcharis”.

These were some examples of the 52 mistakes the government had committed while notifying the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act. The Act even mentioned that there will be delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir. The corrigenda said that the sentence has been omitted now.