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Delineating Constituencies Based On Population Census
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 3, 2013: the Commission on Delineating Constituencies set up by the government on June 13, 2013 has started off discussing with the political parties, civil society leaders, intelligentsia, and university teachers on delineating constituencies. The commission held discussion with 17 political parties on July 1, 2013, and another 17 political parties on Tuesday to collect their opinions.
Most of the political leaders have advised the commission not to touch the 205 constituencies, make changes only in 35 constituencies added in 2007. Some political leaders said that if constituencies were delineated only based on population then the Himalayan regions and hills would not have any representation soon as the migration of the people from the Himalayan regions and hills to the Terai has been intensified.
In 1990 for the purpose of the parliamentary elections to be held in 1991, Nepal was divided into 205 constituencies. Then in 2007, another 35 constituencies were added making 240 constituencies. The added 35 constituencies are seven in the hills and 28 in the Tera-Madhesh, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of yesterday.
Himalayan regions and hill areas have 124 constituencies, and Terai has 116 constituencies. The hills have one constituency for every 120,040 people whereas the Terai has one constituency for every 94,372 people, ‘gorkhpatra’ of yesterday writes.
Since 2007, the population has increased, and the population census was done 2010. Political parties have demanded to freshly delineate constituencies following the latest population census.
