‘Delay in conducting polls in Mahe cannot be attributed to Commission’

D. Ramabathiran, territory justice (retired), serviceman connected peculiar work (OSD) attached to the Justice K.K. Sasidharan Commission for Recommending OBC Reservation successful section Bodies successful the Union Territory of Puducherry has clarified that the hold successful conducting section assemblage polls cannot beryllium attributed to the single-member Commission.

In a connection to The Hindu based connected the report, ‘As Kerala votes, Mahe cries for polls’, published connected December 9, the OSD said determination was immoderate hold connected the portion of the Commission successful preparing the study arsenic it had to ascertain the proportionality of ward-wise OBC colonisation successful Puducherry connected the ground of records and survey.

The Commission, with the support of the Puducherry government, utilised the services of 1,300 anganwadi workers attached to the Department of Women and Child Development to behaviour a door-to-door survey. Taking enactment of this and the hold progressive successful completing the enumeration process, the authorities extended the word of the Commission periodically.

After receiving information collected by the anganwadi workers and countersigned by officials of section bodies, the Commission uploaded the information and finalised the study of 4 retired of the 5 municipalities and each 10 commune panchayats successful Puducherry. “The Commission is present successful the process of uploading information regarding Pondicherry municipality. Once the information is uploaded, the study of the municipality volition besides beryllium finalised. Thereafter, the Commission volition taxable its study to the Government of Puducherry recommending due preservation for OBC successful section assemblage elections,“ it said.