UPSC Prelims 2024 Question:

How many Delimitation Commissions have been constituted by the Government of India till December 2023?

Explanation:

• Delimitation means the process of fixing the number of seats and boundaries of territorial constituencies in each State for the Lok Sabha and Legislative assemblies. It also includes determining the seats to be reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in these houses. Article 82 and 170 of the Constitution provide that the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative assemblies as well as its division into territorial constituencies shall be readjusted after each Census.
  
  
• This ‘delimitation process’ is performed by the ‘Delimitation Commission’ that is set up under an act of Parliament. The Parliament has enacted the Delimitation Commission Acts in 1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

Subject: Polity| Elections