Senate approves bill to increase seats of Balochistan Assembly from 65 to 80

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Senate approves bill to increase seats of Balochistan Assembly from 65 to 80


The Frontier Post
July 20, 2020


ISLAMABAD (APP): The Senate Monday unanimously approved the bill seeking constitutional amendment to increase the number of seats in Provincial Assembly of Balochistan from 65 to 80.

The bill – the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2019] (Amendment of Article 106) – was sponsored by 20 lawmakers from Balochistan which demanded to increase the number of seats in Provincial Assembly of Balochistan from 65 to 80.

Two-third majority was required (66 out of total membership 104) was required for the passage of the bill and it was approved after division among the lawmakers in the House. A total of 71 members present in the House at consideration of this bill votes in its favor and none of them opposed it.

Earlier, the motion to table the bill was also unanimously adopted by the House as 71 Senators voted in its favor and no one opposed it.

The Standing Committee on Law and Justice presented report on this bill during last session which recommended to increase the number of seats in Balochistan Assembly. It is to mention that this private members’ bill was referred to the Committee on September 2, 2019 after introduction in the House.

The committee considered the bill in multiple meetings and also held public hearings in Karachi and Quetta. According to the amendment, the general seats in Balochistan Assembly would increase to 63 from 51, Women seats to 13 from 11 while seats for Non-Muslims to increase from three to four.

 

[Clutch]

Good move. Greater representation means better integration.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Seats should be eventually made equal , across provinces and provinces should be broken to 8 provinces

 

[Imad.Khan]

Provincial Assemblies are a waste of precious resources. There should only be one legislative body and that should only be at the Federal level. The provinces should only have executive/administration bodies.

 

[jupiter2007]

Jahil fake degree holders will do nothing but waste resources. We should be a Unitarian state just like Japan, with Divisions as the 2nd Tier of government.

 

[jupiter2007]

How many ethnic groups Japan have? Pakistani provinces are areas of different ethnic groups not administrative units. Pakistan k provinces isliye nhi Hain keh yeh system ziada efficient ha blkay sab ethnic groups ko unki apni government dainay k liye hain.

This is the main reason for our decline. USA has more ethnic groups, racial, and religious groups but they have solid administrative units. Regardless of how you you flip the coin, we need to remove provinces and make divisions as the administrative units. Zia-ul-Haq wanted to create 18 provinces but same ethnic groups were against it. We need 20 to 30 administrative units without spending money on useless MPAs.
As long as government work on the economy to create jobs and proper housing for people, we should be ok.