After being on hold for 15 long years, the Election Commission on Tuesday published its draft plan to kickstart the delimitation of assembly and Lock Sabha constituencies in Assam based on the population census of 2001, proposing to increase the number of SC and ST reserved assembly seats.
According to an official statement, the EC has proposed that the assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Castes be increased from eight to nine and for Scheduled Tribes seats from 16 to 19.
After being on hold for 15 long years, the Election Commission on Tuesday published its draft plan to kickstart the delimitation of assembly and Lock Sabha constituencies in Assam based on the population census of 2001, proposing to increase the number of SC and ST reserved assembly seats.
According to an official statement, the EC has proposed that the assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Castes be increased from eight to nine and for Scheduled Tribes seats from 16 to 19.
The number of Assembly seats in the autonomous Bodoland Territorial Region has increased by three to 19. Similarly, the hilly West Karbi Anglong district has gained an Assembly constituency.
While there is no change in the number of Lok Sabha seats, a proposal has been made to name one constituency after Kaziranga.
The EC has retained Diphu and Kokrajhar parliamentary seats reserved for ST and continued the Lakhimpur parliamentary seat as unreserved.
According to the proposals, there will be one unreserved assembly seat in Dhemaji district. Two parliamentary seats have been proposed for the Barak Valley districts — Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj.