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Residents of Vanagaram and Adayalampattu whitethorn person to hold longer to go Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) voters, arsenic the proposed merger is present enactment connected hold.
The 200 wards of the civic assemblage are apt to caput into the 2027 section assemblage elections without expanding their limits, according to sources successful the GCC and the State government.
“As the Census operations began connected January 1, 2026, the Government of India has issued a directive to each States that nary further changes to the boundaries aft January 1, 2026, whitethorn beryllium undertaken anyplace successful India until the Census operations are over. So, till the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth oregon so, the boundaries cannot beryllium changed,” a State-level authorization said.
“According to the guidelines of the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission (TNSEC), erstwhile reservations are fixed without an intervening delimitation, they stay successful effect for a 10-year period. So, without a caller delimitation exercise, the existing ward reservations for the Scheduled Castes and the General Category volition stay unchanged. The existent reservations, which were implemented successful the 2022 elections, volition beryllium aforesaid for the upcoming 2027 section assemblage elections, and volition stay valid until 2031,” different GCC authoritative said.
“In January 2025, determination was a connection to grow the GCC limits to see adjacent areas specified arsenic Vanagaram and Adayalampattu. However, the neighbouring section bodies, specified arsenic the Tambaram and Tiruvallur Corporations, staked assertion implicit portions of these 2 colony panchayats, causing delay. So, the State authorities did not walk a G.O. for the expansion,” an authoritative said.
“Moreover, determination has been nary bid regarding the interior delimitation of wards for the civic polls for the GCC. Altering the bound of adjacent a azygous thoroughfare oregon polling booth legally constitutes delimitation,” helium added.
“Hence, the adjacent delimitation workout for the metropolis volition instrumentality spot lone aft the caller Census information becomes available. The notation day [the ceremonial clip frame] for the upcoming Census is March 1, 2027, with the information expected to beryllium collected by April 2027. The erstwhile delimitation workout was conducted successful 2017, utilizing the 2011 Census data,” helium said.
Other districts
“While the GCC boundaries stay frozen, the TNSEC is presently executing a delimitation process for 9 different districts wherever the section assemblage presumption person ended. This statutory 180-day process, which mandates 90 days for nationalist hearings, is scheduled to beryllium completed by August 17 to facilitate elections successful October,” different authoritative said.
