By way of PTI
GUWAHATI: The whole bench of the Election Fee of India (ECI) reached right here on Wednesday to carry a chain of public hearings on draft delimitation proposals for the Meeting and Parliamentary constituencies of Assam.
Leader Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel, at the side of senior officers of the ECI, reached Guwahati this morning and began the three-day listening to at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra complicated right here.
An legitimate of the ballot panel informed PTI that simultaneous hearings are going down in 3 other halls with Kumar, Pandey and Goel listening to folks’s ideas.
Right through this public listening to, the ECI will grasp discussions with quite a lot of stakeholders, together with political events and civil society organisations, over the draft proposals at the delimitation workout, which is being performed at the foundation of the 2001 Census.
“After the proposal used to be printed in June 2023, ideas and objections had been invited until July 11. Over 780 representations were won all over this era. The general public hearings are a part of the consultative workout via the Fee all over the method of delimitation,” ECI mentioned in a remark.
At the first day, ideas for Kamrup Metropolitan, West Karbi Anglong, Chirang, Baksa, Dima Hasao, Kamrup, Udalguri, Karbi Anglong and Kokrajhar districts had been heard. Over 270 representations were won via the ECI from those spaces.
Comments at the draft for Goalpara, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Sonitpur, Karimganj, Darrang, Hailakandi, Cachar, South Salmara, Nagaon, Morigaon and Dhubri districts shall be heard on Thursday. Greater than 400 ideas were won from those districts.
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At the ultimate day, the ECI will pay attention to prayers from Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Golaghat and Majuli districts. Over 95 proposals were submitted from those spaces. But even so, six ideas were won from quite a lot of nationwide and state political events.
The executive electoral officer of Assam had on Tuesday asked all public organisations to restrict the choice of representatives for every workforce to a most of 5 folks.
The ultimate delimitation workout in Assam happened in 1976 at the foundation of the 1971 Census.
Following the newsletter of the draft proposals ultimate month, opposition events and a number of other social organisations slammed the ECI and alleged that the central ballot frame acted as a “puppet” of the ruling BJP. Then again, the ECI has no longer reacted to the allegations but. Many political events have additionally knocked at the doorways of the Very best Court docket towards all the delimitation workout.
The ECI had on June 20 notified the draft delimitation report via holding the choice of Meeting seats in Assam at 126 and the Lok Sabha constituencies at 14. The state has seven Rajya Sabha seats.
As in keeping with the draft, the Meeting seats reserved for Scheduled Castes were higher to 9 from 8 and for Scheduled Tribes to 19 from 16. For the Parliamentary constituencies, two were proposed underneath the ST class and one for the SC group.
The ballot panel has additionally deliberate to vary the geographical limitations of lots of the constituencies, each Meeting and Lok Sabha, whilst getting rid of some seats and growing a couple of new ones.
An ECI group had previous visited Assam on March 26-28 and held interactions with political events, public representatives, civil society individuals, social organisations, individuals of the general public and officials in regards to the delimitation workout.
Representations from 11 political events and 71 different organisations had been won and regarded as all over that seek advice from of the ECI group.
GUWAHATI: The whole bench of the Election Fee of India (ECI) reached right here on Wednesday to carry a chain of public hearings on draft delimitation proposals for the Meeting and Parliamentary constituencies of Assam.
Leader Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel, at the side of senior officers of the ECI, reached Guwahati this morning and began the three-day listening to at Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra complicated right here.
An legitimate of the ballot panel informed PTI that simultaneous hearings are going down in 3 other halls with Kumar, Pandey and Goel listening to folks’s ideas.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Right through this public listening to, the ECI will grasp discussions with quite a lot of stakeholders, together with political events and civil society organisations, over the draft proposals at the delimitation workout, which is being performed at the foundation of the 2001 Census.
“After the proposal used to be printed in June 2023, ideas and objections had been invited until July 11. Over 780 representations were won all over this era. The general public hearings are a part of the consultative workout via the Fee all over the method of delimitation,” ECI mentioned in a remark.
At the first day, ideas for Kamrup Metropolitan, West Karbi Anglong, Chirang, Baksa, Dima Hasao, Kamrup, Udalguri, Karbi Anglong and Kokrajhar districts had been heard. Over 270 representations were won via the ECI from those spaces.
Comments at the draft for Goalpara, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Sonitpur, Karimganj, Darrang, Hailakandi, Cachar, South Salmara, Nagaon, Morigaon and Dhubri districts shall be heard on Thursday. Greater than 400 ideas were won from those districts.
OPINION | Balkanisation, delimitation, and rumbling within the states
At the ultimate day, the ECI will pay attention to prayers from Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Charaideo, Golaghat and Majuli districts. Over 95 proposals were submitted from those spaces. But even so, six ideas were won from quite a lot of nationwide and state political events.
The executive electoral officer of Assam had on Tuesday asked all public organisations to restrict the choice of representatives for every workforce to a most of 5 folks.
The ultimate delimitation workout in Assam happened in 1976 at the foundation of the 1971 Census.
Following the newsletter of the draft proposals ultimate month, opposition events and a number of other social organisations slammed the ECI and alleged that the central ballot frame acted as a “puppet” of the ruling BJP. Then again, the ECI has no longer reacted to the allegations but. Many political events have additionally knocked at the doorways of the Very best Court docket towards all the delimitation workout.
The ECI had on June 20 notified the draft delimitation report via holding the choice of Meeting seats in Assam at 126 and the Lok Sabha constituencies at 14. The state has seven Rajya Sabha seats.
As in keeping with the draft, the Meeting seats reserved for Scheduled Castes were higher to 9 from 8 and for Scheduled Tribes to 19 from 16. For the Parliamentary constituencies, two were proposed underneath the ST class and one for the SC group.
The ballot panel has additionally deliberate to vary the geographical limitations of lots of the constituencies, each Meeting and Lok Sabha, whilst getting rid of some seats and growing a couple of new ones.
An ECI group had previous visited Assam on March 26-28 and held interactions with political events, public representatives, civil society individuals, social organisations, individuals of the general public and officials in regards to the delimitation workout.
Representations from 11 political events and 71 different organisations had been won and regarded as all over that seek advice from of the ECI group.