‘Form fresh panel for delimitation of wards’
The Hindu
The panel can examine the findings of the 2016 committee, says former MP
Former Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) M. Ramadass on Tuesday urged the government to form a fresh committee to carry out delimitation exercise for local bodies polls.
In a statement, he said the panel could examine the findings of the 2016 committee and suggest fresh delimitation of wards and reserve wards for OBC, Women, SC and ST.
The committee, if needed, could use the projected population of 2021 for delimitation.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists