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What is done in India to redraw the boundaries of parliamentary or assembly constituencies to ensure that, in practice, each constituency is equal?
1. Ratio of male-female
2. Number of people
3. Tax revenue
4. Area in each constituency

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Correct Answer - Option 2 : Number of people

The correct answer is ​Number of people.

  • To redraw the boundaries of parliamentary or assembly constituencies to ensure that, in practice, each constituency is equal to the number of people.
  • Under Article 82, the Parliament enacts a Delimitation Act after every Census.
  • The Union government sets up a Delimitation Commission made up of a retired Supreme Court judge, the Chief Election Commissioner and the respective State Election Commissioners.
  • The Commission is supposed to determine the number and boundaries of constituencies in a way that the population of all seats, so far as practicable, is the same. 
  • Delimitation is the act of redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha and state Assembly seats to represent changes in population.
  • In this process, the number of seats allocated to different states in Lok Sabha and the total number of seats in a Legislative Assembly may also change.
  • The main objective of delimitation is to provide equal representation to equal segments of a population.
  • It also aims at a fair division of geographical areas so that one political party doesn’t have an advantage over others in an election.

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