• The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021

•  • The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021
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• The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was introduced in 
• Rajya Sabha on February 4, 2021. on February 8, 2021 passed from RS , on February 13, 
• 2021 passed from LS 
•  It amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
•  The Act provides for the bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into the Union Territory of J&K and Union Territory of Ladakh.
• The Bill repeals the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021.
• Key features of the Bill include: 
• Application of provisions on elected legislatures:
• The Act provides that Article 239A of the Constitution, which is applicable to the union 
• territory of Puducherry, shall also apply to the union territory of J&K.
• Article 239A provides for the constitution of a union territory of Puducherry with:
• a legislature, which may be elected, or partly nominated and partly elected, or a Council of Minister.
• The Bill states that in addition to Article 239A, any other provision of the Constitution  which refers to elected members of a legislative assembly of a state and is also applicable  to the union territory of Puducherry, will apply to the union territory of J&K. 
• • Merging of administrative cadres:
• The Act specifies that the members of the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian  Police Service and the Indian Forest Service serving in the state of J&K would continue  to serve in the two union territories, based on allocation decided by the central government.
• Further, in future, postings of officers in the two union territories would be from the  Arunachal Goa Mizoram Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre.
• The AGMUT cadre covers the three states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Goa, as  well as all the union territories.
• The Bill amends these clauses to provide for the merger of the officers in the existing cadre of J&K with the AGMUT cadre