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BJP finds fault with delimitation of wards

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MARCH 3. The Rangareddy district committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has picked holes in the proposed delimitation of municipal wards in the district, for which notifications were issued earlier this week.

The proposed increase in the number of wards in the district, from the existing 309 to 434, was based on a `faulty' grade system with `unscientific' methods used for the delimitation of wards, the BJP Rangareddy district president, S. Malla Reddy, told reporters here on Thursday.

"There is no clarity on what basis the new wards were carved out, neither are there any proper guidelines available for it. Some municipalities followed voter lists, a few followed the census reports of 2001, some followed both while in Kapra and Rajendranagar, enumeration blocks were taken as the basis for the bifurcation," Mr. Reddy said.

Irregularities

Listing out irregularities in the proposals, for which objections have been invited till March 6, Mr. Reddy said in ward-wise population and voters were not shown in Uppal and Kukatpally municipalities. In some, population and voting strength was mentioned while in Kapra and Serilingampally, only ward-wise voting strength was given. "Further, there should be not more than a 10 per cent variation in number of voters from ward to ward. But in several cases, the variation goes up to 30 per cent," he said, citing the example of Ward 4 in Qutbullapur municipality, which has 5,009 voters while Ward 37 has only 3,461 voters.

"The delimitation process also has similar glitches. In Malkajgiri, which has a population of 1,93,863, the number of wards was increased from 32 to 39. But in Alwal, which has only 93,206 people, wards have gone up to 40 from 28. Alwal has more wards than Serilingampally, Rajendranagar, Kapra and Uppal, all of which have higher population than Alwal," Mr. Reddy said.

"The Government should look into the matter and direct the municipal commissioners to adopt a proper, scientific and practical method in increasing and re-dividing the wards. The population, and not the grade system, should be the base for delimitation," the BJP leader said.

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