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Monday, December 31, 2007

Panchayat seats to increase


Statesman News Service
MALDA, Dec. 31: The district panchayat and rural development are preparing a draft to delaminate segments of three tire panchayat seats mainly in the zilla parishad and panchayat simiti level. The department has planned to publish the draft of the fresh demarcation of seats on 8 January 2008 for public notification. Before final publication of the draft the department will be waiting for suggestions or any objections from people or political parties. The district administrative officials said that the department would finally publish demarcation of three tire panchayat seats on 7 February. Sources said that seats for Malda zilla parishad would be increased based on the number of voters. In case of zilla parishads, 60,000 voters per seat would be considered. At present Malda zilla parishad has 33 seats.

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