Chairperson Delimitation Commission Justice Ranjana Desai inaugurating office premises of the Delimitation Commission at Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi on August 24. (PIB/EC Photo)
New Delhi, August 24 (MExN): The Delimitation Commission set up earlier this year to redraw the constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh has completed data collection work for the proposed exercise, the Election Commission (EC) said on Monday.
The Commission has kept June 15, 2020 as the date for freezing of administrative districts in the states/Union Territories, it said.
In a statement issued through the Press Information Bureau (PIB) after the inauguration of the new office premises of the Delimitation Commission, the EC informed that the Commission has already started functioning since March and has held four formal meetings.
All associate members have already been nominated for each State/ Union Territory concerned, it said.
The new premise on the third floor of Hotel Ashoka in Central Delhi was opened by panel chairperson Justice Ranjana Desai, a former Supreme Court judge, it said.
Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra is the representative of the EC on the Delimitation panel, while state election commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir and the four states are its ex-officio members.
The Delimitation panel will redraw the Lok Sabha and the Assembly constituencies of the four northeastern states and work on increasing the Assembly seats of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir.
“With the opening of this new office, it is hoped that formal deliberations with Associate Members would start soon to expedite the process of delimitation as envisaged,” the EC said.
