 "N K Singh, finance commission chairman")
The 15th Finance Commission is likely to get an extension, as the panel has to examine devolution to Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in the light of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
Chairman NK Singh, on the sidelines of an event in New Delhi, said the government had yet to give fresh terms of reference to the panel regarding Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, even after the two union territories came into being on October 31. He did not directly say that an extension would be given.
With the deadline of the panel’s report submission of November 30
