CHANDIGARH: The UT administration has received 170 objections against its draft notification for delimitation of wards of the municipal corporation (MC) that raised the number from 26 to 35 for the civic body elections in December 2021.
As many as 150 objections are of similar nature, related to areas and colonies under the new wards.
A committee of officers constituted under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner will review each objection on Tuesday and send them to the administration for consideration. The final decision to make any changes or not will be taken by Punjab governor and UT administrator V P Singh Badnore.
“The committee will review every objection filed by people. The new municipal wards had been proposed as per the 2011census but the total population in the real sense was also considered. The committee will carry out the review in a positive manner. By the end of this month, the final notification of the new municipal wards will be released,” sources said.
The delimitation of wards was conducted following the merger of 13 villages in the MC from the administration last year. The last delimitation was held in 2006 on the basis of the 2001 census. The next process was to be held in 2015 on the 2011census but could not be conducted as the issue of merger of the villages was pending.
The 13 villages included in the MC were Behlana, Raipur Khurd, Raipur Kalan, Makhan Majra, Daria, Mauli Jagran, Kishangarh, Kaimbwala, Khuda Ali Sher, Khuda Jassu, Khuda Lahora, Sarangpur and Dhanas.