law: Delimitation Act, 2002
  9. Delimitation of
  
  constituencies.-
  
  1.  
  
    The
  
  Commission shall, in the manner herein provided, then, distribute the seats in
  
  the House of the People allocated to each State and the seats assigned to the
  
  Legislative Assembly of each State as readjusted on the basis of 1971 census to
  
  single-member territorial constituencies and delimit them on the basis of the
  
  census figures as ascertained, at the census held in the year 1991, having
  
  regard to the provisions of the Constitution, the provisions of the Act specified
  
  in section 8 and the following provisions, namely:-
  a.   all constituencies
  
  shall, as far as practicable, be geographically compact areas, and in
  
  delimiting them regard shall be had to physical features, existing boundaries
  
  of administrative units, facilities of communication and public convenience;
  b.   every assembly
  
  constituency shall be so delimited as to fall wholly within one parliamentary
  
  constituency;
  c.   constituencies in
  
  which seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes shall be distributed in
  
  different parts of the State and located, as far as practicable, in those areas
  
  where the proportion of their population to the total is comparatively large;
  
  and
  d.   constituencies in
  
  which seats are reserved for the Scheduled Tribes shall, as far as practicable,
  
  be located in areas where the proportion of their population to the total is
  
  the largest.
  1.  
  
   
  2.  
  
    The
  
  Commission shall-
  a.   publish its proposals
  
  for the delimitation of constituencies, together with the dissenting proposals,
  
  if any, of any associate member who desires publication thereof, in the Gazette
  
  of India and in the Official Gazettes of all the States concerned an also in
  
  such other manner as it thinks fit;
  b.   specify a date on or
  
  after which the proposals shall be further considered by it;
  c.   consider all
  
  objections and suggestions which may have been received by it before the date
  
  so specified, and for the purpose of such consideration, hold one or more
  
  public sittings at such place or places in each State as it thinks fit; and
  d.   thereafter by one or
  
  more orders determine-
   
  
   i.  
  
    the
  
  delimitation of parliamentary constituencies; and
   
  
   ii.  
  
    the
  
  delimitation of assembly constituencies, of each State.