Jammu, March 8 -- Minister for Social Welfare, Sakina Itoo, informed the Legislative Assembly that there is no proposal to grant Tehsil status to Achabal.

Responding on behalf of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to a query by MLA Abdul Majid Larmi, she stated that the government had earlier sanctioned nine new Sub Divisions, 50 Tehsils, and 99 Niabats. Achabal was designated as a Sub Division under Government Order No. Rev (S) 242 of 2014, dated October 21, 2014.

However, this order was put on hold in 2018, except for a few Tehsils in Kupwara, Baramulla, Doda, and Ramban districts. It was later withdrawn entirely through a State Administrative Council decision on July 30, 2019.

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