We see the Gilgit Baltistan region has been cut off from the J&K and this is pure incorrect represenation,. Can someone suggest how this cane be fixed?
Gilgit-Baltistan has been administered by Pakistan since 1949, so we represent that reality. Territories claimed by India which are not under their control are recorded as disputed boundaries and can be seen here Relation: Official Boundaries of India (12343602) | OpenStreetMap. You can read about how different disputed borders are represented here Disputed territories - OpenStreetMap Wiki.
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OpenStreetMap is a map database, not the map itself.
Because the default map visible on the browser is rendered as image tiles (raster) and not vector instructions, it would be very expensive to have a version of the map for each disputed boundary (you need to re render all the images), which is why it shows the internationally accepted borders and not the ones declared as per indian law.
You can use OSM data to make a map with boundaries as per Indian claims as many people have already done before.
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Also: https://openstreetmap.in renders the Indian perspective of the boundaries.
Territories that are claimed by India is represented disputed and territories claimed by Pakistan is represented theirs, this isn’t right way of representing.
No, Pakistan actually claims more. In Kashmir but not only there.
For example Junagadh.
Not sure are we bothering to mark this as disputed.
From https://www.dawn.com/news/1572590 via Junagadh - Wikipedia via Category:Territorial disputes of Pakistan - Wikipedia
In both cases we map borders where they de facto exist.
Not sure is it making you happier but we are marking primarily de facto state, rather than what India claims or what Pakistan claims.
Representation is not something that OpenStreetMap does, the database contains multiple versions of borders.
You can have the Indian claim, Pakistani claim, the Chinese claim (all called dejury borders) and the borders that demark the region the countries are actually in control of (called a defacto border) all in the database
The map you see on the website is a 3rd party map called Carto that chooses to show the defacto version of the borders, the website uses this map just for showcasing the database.
When you want to show your version of the border, you can. For example when the Indian government uses OSM data, it hides the defacto borders and displays its claim.(try seeing https://bharatmaps.gov.in/BharatMapsMVC/Home/Map with ESRI street or ESRI topo set as basemap, that uses OSM data)