How 5 Key Sectors Of J And K Are Getting A Makeover Before State Becomes UT

The civil service needs to be reshuffled, the budget calculations have to be realigned, and pretty much the entire legal and administrative framework governing governance in Jammu & Kashmir has to be overhauled.

Less than two weeks before the state is bifurcated on 31 October to form the union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, the authorities are racing against time to ensure the transition is smooth.

“From giving final touches to a separate budget to finalizing the list of employees across departments that will be split between the two union territories and restructuring the legislative assembly, we are working round the clock,” a senior J&K-cadre IAS officer told ThePrint over the phone. “It’s a mammoth and challenging exercise.”

To understand how one of the biggest reorganization exercises in recent times is being pulled off, ThePrint spoke to different officials who are in the know of the preparations underway. Here are the changes that are expected to kick on 1 November in five key areas — administration, policing and law & order, judiciary, education & health, and infrastructure & industry.

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