PANAJI
The State Election Commission (SEC) has invited public suggestions on the draft delimitation of Zilla Panchayat constituencies till September 26.
The SEC has kept the draft open for public inspections from Tuesday onwards at the offices of the District Collector and AEROs/Mamlatdars of respective ZP constituencies during office hours. Public can submit their suggestions, modifications and objections to the draft by September 26.
The Commission had last month initiated a process of dividing the area within the jurisdiction of North Goa ZP and South Goa ZP into 25-single member constituencies, respectively for the purpose of ensuring general elections.
The term of the existing ZPs is set to end in the first week of January, 2026.
For the delimitation purpose, the Electoral Roll of the Goa Legislative Assembly currently in force as on January 1, 2025 (as the qualifying date) and published on January 6, 2025 and list of addition, deletion and correction carried out during continuous updation and respect to July 1, 2025 was adopted to divide the ZP areas into territorial constituencies.
SEC has also appointed Deputy Collectors and Mamlatdars as the Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers for the polls, which are likely to take place in December.
