 bid no 12 of 1883 the delhi municipal corporation (amendment) bill, 1983a bill further to amend the delhi municipal> c01'p07'atidn act, 1957 bi: it enacted by parliament in the thirty-fourth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the delhi municipal corporation' shori (amendment) act, 1983' title and com-s (2) it shall be' deemed to have come into force on the 2nd day of mence-j 983 m~ anuary, 1  01 '57 2 in the delhi municipal corporation act' 1957 (hereinafter referred msertion to as the principal act), after section 5, the following section shall be of new , section inserted, namely: -5ao: '  10 "5a notwithstanding anything contained in section 3 or section 5, until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the year 2000 have been published, it shall not be necessary, special ppovision as to delimitation, e~ (a) to alter the number of councillors and the number of councillors to be reserved for the members of the scheduled castes as determined under section 3 on the basis of the population of delhi as ascertained at the 1971 census, or (b) to alter the number of wards, or the extent of any ward, as detennined under section 5 on the basis of the population of delhi as ascertained at the 1971 census, lzo and for this purpose, the reference in sub-section '(6) of section 3 to each cen~us and the references to population in that sub-section and in su]);sectlon(l) of· aeotlon 5 shall be codstrued respectively,  references to the 1971 census and to the population as ascertained at the 1971 census" 3 (1) the delhi municipal corporation (amendment) ordinance, 1983, is hereby repealed repeal and aving (2) notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal act, as amended by the said ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal act, 88 amended by this act  statement of objects and reasonsthe delhi municipal corporation act, 1957 provides that for the purposes of election of councillors, delhi shall be divided into singlemember wards in such manner that the population of each of the wards shall, so far as practicable, be the ~e throughout delhi it also provides for determination of wards and reservation of seats for the scheduled castes the figures of 1981 census being available, it is necessary to delimit the wards on the basis of 1981 census, but the process of delimitation of the wards being time consuming and the holding of elections to the municipal corporation of deihl immediately having become urgently necessary, the delhi municipal corporation (amendment) ordinance, 1983 was promulgated to facilitate elections being held to the municipal corporation of delhi on the basis of existing wards and reservation ot seats for scheduled castes determined after 1971 census, on the lines of similar provisions in the constitution of india relat'ng to elections to the members of paruament and the members of the legislative assemblies in the states 2 the bill seeks to replace the said ordinance new delhi; p c sethi the 16th februmy, 1983  billfurther to amend the delhi municipal corporation act, 1957 (shri p c sethi, minister oj home affair,: 