Delimitation Act, 2002
9. Delimitation of
constituencies.-
1.
The
Commission shall, in the manner herein provided, then, distribute the seats in
the House of the People allocated to each State and the seats assigned to the
Legislative Assembly of each State as readjusted on the basis of 1971 census to
single-member territorial constituencies and delimit them on the basis of the
census figures as ascertained, at the census held in the year 1991, having
regard to the provisions of the Constitution, the provisions of the Act specified
in section 8 and the following provisions, namely:-
a. all constituencies
shall, as far as practicable, be geographically compact areas, and in
delimiting them regard shall be had to physical features, existing boundaries
of administrative units, facilities of communication and public convenience;
b. every assembly
constituency shall be so delimited as to fall wholly within one parliamentary
constituency;
c. constituencies in
which seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes shall be distributed in
different parts of the State and located, as far as practicable, in those areas
where the proportion of their population to the total is comparatively large;
and
d. constituencies in
which seats are reserved for the Scheduled Tribes shall, as far as practicable,
be located in areas where the proportion of their population to the total is
the largest.
1.
2.
The
Commission shall-
a. publish its proposals
for the delimitation of constituencies, together with the dissenting proposals,
if any, of any associate member who desires publication thereof, in the Gazette
of India and in the Official Gazettes of all the States concerned an also in
such other manner as it thinks fit;
b. specify a date on or
after which the proposals shall be further considered by it;
c. consider all
objections and suggestions which may have been received by it before the date
so specified, and for the purpose of such consideration, hold one or more
public sittings at such place or places in each State as it thinks fit; and
d. thereafter by one or
more orders determine-
i.
the
delimitation of parliamentary constituencies; and
ii.
the
delimitation of assembly constituencies, of each State.