Need is for reviewing status of existing District Administrative Units & only then take to Reorganisation of Divisions in UT of J&K

After 1947 Distant/ Backward areas & People of J&K have not been given fair nearness to Segments in Administration Even after 1947 Distant/ Backward areas & People of J&K have not been given fair nearness to Segments in Administration People of Distant & Backward Areas lacking due Political & Adm. Empowerment keep falling back in Growth

- ■DAYA SAGAR

In a democratic republic like India District administrative unit ( District) is in general taken into consideration forever all broader prospective planning and allocation of plan finds.

It will not be wrong to say that keeping 'plan allocation & related deeds' in view the areas falling in Jammu Division of J&K would surely have possibly remained under more of dis-advantage. Just for an idea sake it would be appropriate to quote here that including the areas illegally occupied by Pakistan in 1947/48 the then Jammu province had 5district administrative units (Jammu, Kathua, Udhampur, Reasi, Mirpur) and two Jagirs (Poonch, almost like the level of a district, and of Chenani) where as the Kashmir province (excluding Ladakh & frontier areas Gilgit /Baltistan) had only 3 District Administrative units (Anantnag, Baramulla, Muzaffarabad ). After 1947, for active administration, the unoccupied areas of J&K excluding Mirpur District of Jammu province & a very small part of Poonch jagir were reorganized into 6 six District Administrative units of Jammu Division (Jammu, Kathua, Udhampur, Doda, Rajouri and Poonch); the 2 remaining districts of Anantnag &Baramulla werereoganised as only 3 districts of Anantnag, Srinagar & Baramulla in Kashmir Division and ofcourse Ladakh too was a district of Kashmir Division. So upto 1978 there were 6 districts in Jammu Division and in Kashmir Division there were only 3 Districts of Kashmir Valley in Kashmir Division.