Delimitation Commission of India

Delimitation commission or Boundary commission of India is a Commission established

by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act.
The main task of the commission is redraw the boundaries of the various assembly
and Lok Sabha constituencies based on a recent census. The representation from each
state is not changed during this exercise. However, the number of SC and ST seats
in a state are changed in accordance with the census.

The Commission is a powerful body whose orders cannot be challenged in a court of

law. The orders are laid before the Lok Sabha and the respective State Legislative
Assemblies. However, modifications are not permitted.
Commission of 2002

Commission of 2002

On 4 January 2008, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) decided to

implement the order from the Delimitation Commission.[2] The recommendations of the
Delimitation Commission was approved by the President, Pratibha Patil on 19
February 2008. This means that all future elections in India for states covered by
the commission will be held under the newly formed constituencies.
Even though the boundaries of constituencies were altered in 2001 to equate
population among the parliamentary seats; the number of Lok Sabha seats that each
state has remained unaltered since 1971 census and may only be changed after 2026
as stated in the 87th amendment to Indian Constitution.
This was mainly done as states which had implemented family planning widely like
Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Punjab would stand to loose many parliamentary seats
representation and states with poor family planning programs and higher fertility
rates like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan would adversely gain many of the
seats transferred from better performing states
2001
2001
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