STATE ELECTION COMMISSION 18, Sarojini Naidu Sarani (Rawdon Street) – 700 017 Ph. No. 2280-5805; FAX- 2280-7373

No. 1808-SEC/1D-130/2012 Kolkata, the 3rd December, 2012

O R D E R

In exercise of the power conferred by Sections 16 and 17 of the West Bengal Panchayat Elections Act, 2003 (West Bengal Act XXI of 2003), read with rules 26 and 27 of the West Bengal Panchayat Elections Rules, 2006, West Bengal State Election Commission, hereby publish the draft Order for delimitation of Dakshin Dinajpur Zilla Parishad constituencies and reservation of seats thereto. The Block(s) have been specified in column (1) of the Schedule below (hereinafter referred to as the said Schedule), the number of members to be elected to the Zilla Parishad specified in the corresponding entries in column (2), to divide the area of the Block into constituencies specified in the corresponding entries in column (3),to determine the constituency or constituencies reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (ST), Scheduled Castes (SC) or the Backward Classes (BC) specified in the corresponding entries in column (4) and the constituency or constituencies reserved for women specified in the corresponding entries in column (5) of the said schedule.

The draft will be taken up for consideration by the State Election Commissioner after fifteen days from this day and any objection or suggestion with respect thereto, which may be received by the Commission within the said period, shall be duly considered.

THE SCHEDULE

Dakshin Dinajpur Zilla Parishad

Dakshin Dinajpur District

Name of Number of Number, Name and area Constituenci- Constituen- Block members to of the Constituency es reserved cies be elected for ST/SC/BC reserved for to the Zilla persons women Parishad (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 2 Kushmandi/ ZP-1 SC Women Akcha, Deul, Karanji and Udaypur grams Kushmandi / ZP-2 SC Berail, Kalikamora, Kushmandi and Maligaon grams

1 of 3 3 Gangarampur/ ZP-3 Women Sukdevpur, Belbari-II and Jahangirpur grams

Gangarampur / ZP-4 Women Basuria, Challon, Uday and Ashokegram grams

Gangarampur / ZP-5 SC Women Nandanpur, Belbari-I, Damdama and Gangarampur grams 2 Kumarganj/ ZP-6 SC Safanagar, Ramkrishnapur, Bhour and Deor grams

Kumarganj / ZP-7 Women Samjhia, Jakirpur, Mohana and Batun grams

Balurghat 3 / ZP-8 , Amritakhanda, Chingishpur and Gopalbati grams Balurghat/ ZP-9 ST Women Bolla, Boalder, Chakvrigu and Jalghar grams Balurghat / ZP-10 ST , Nazirpur and Danga grams Hili 1 Hili/ ZP-11 Women Binsira, Dhalpara, Panjul, Hili and Jamalpur grams

Tapan 3 Tapan/ ZP-12 ST Women Harsura, Dwipkhanda, Gofanagar and Hazratpur grams Tapan/ ZP-13 SC Tapan Chandipur, Malancha, Ajmatpur and Autina grams

Tapan/ ZP-14 Rampara Chechra, Ramchandrapur and Gurail grams

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Harirampur/ ZP-16 Pundari, Bagichapur and Bairhatta grams Banshihari 2 Banshihari/ ZP-17 SC Brajaballavpur, Ellahabad and Mahabari grams Banshihari / ZP-18 Shibpur and Ganguria grams

By order of the State Election Commissioner, West Bengal State Election Commission

(TAPAS RAY) Secretary West Bengal State Election Commission

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