On Tuesday, Election Commission has released its draft proposal for delimitation in Assam resulting in increased of seats.
As per reports, seats increased and reserved for Scheduled Castes from eight to nine and for Scheduled Tribes from 16 to 19.
Additionally, the delimitation was carried out on the basis of the 2001 Census, the first such exercise in Assam since 1976. Among the Lok Sabha seats, two seats were proposed to be reserved for STs and one for SCs.
The EC invited suggestions and objections from the public till July 11 and announced that the three-member panel would visit the state for a public hearing in July.
“Efforts have been made to keep all constituencies, as far as practicable, as geographically compact areas, and in delimiting them, regard has been had to the physical features, density of population, existing boundaries of administrative units, facilities of communication and public convenience,” the EC said.
