 the two-member constituencies (abolition) bill, 1960(to be introduced in lok sabha)  the two-member constituencies (abolmon) bill, 1960 (to be introduced in lok sabha) a billto provide for the abolition of                                         two-member                                                           parliamentary                                                                               and     assem'bly constituencies and for the creation of single-membe,­    constituencies in their place   be it enacted by parliament in the eleventh year of the repub­lic of india as follows:-definitions      1 this act may be called the two-member constituencies (abo- short tide  lition) act, 1960 s      z in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-    (a) "commission" means the election commission appoint­ed by the president under article 324 of the constitution; (b) "delimitation order" means the delimitation of parlia­mentary and assembly constituencies order, 1956; 10 (c) "sitting member" means a person who, immediatelybefore the date of publication of a notification under clause (c) of section 4 in the official gazette of the state concerned, is a member of the house of the people from that state or, as the case may be, of the legislative assembly of that state;is (d) "state" includes a union territory;   (e) "two-member constituency" means a two-member par­liamentary constituency specified in the first schedule, or a two­member assembly constituency specified in the second schedule, to the delimitation order division of 3 the commission ahall, as soon as may be practiable and in two-member the manner herein provided, divide every two-member constituency =~tuen-(other than a two-member assembly constituency in the state of gujarat) into two single-member constituencies, delimit their extent and decide in which of them the seat shall be reserved for the sche- 5 duled castes or, as the case lllqy be, for the scheduled tribes, having regard to the following provisions, namely:- - (a) all the single-member constituencies shall, as far as practicable, be geographically compact areas and in delimiting them regard shall be had to physical features, existing bounda- 10 ries of administrative units, facilities of communication and public convenience; and (b) the seat shall be reserved in that single-member constituency which in the opinion of the commission has the greater concentration of population of the scheduled caates or, 15 as the case may be, of the scheduled tribes expzanation-in this section, "population" means the population as ascertained at the census held in 1951 manner of 4 the commission shall, as respects each state,-division (a) formulate its proposals in regard to the matters men- 20 tioned in section 3 and publish them in the official gazette of the state together with a notice specifying a date on or after which the proposals will be further considered by it; (b) after considering all objections and suggestions whica may have been received by it before the date so specified, deter- 2s mine the matters referred to in section 3; and (c) direct, by notification published in the official gezette of the state and in the gazette of india, such amendments to be made in the delimitation order as appear to it to be necessary for giving effect to its decisions 30 bft'eet of division 5 as from the date of publication of a notification under cleuse (c) ofaection 4 in the official gazette of the state concerned,-(a) every two-member constituency in the state (other than a two-member assembly constituency in the state of gujarat) shall cease to exist and, in lieu thereof, there shall come into 3s existence two single-member constituencies (hereinafter referred toas "the corresponding new constituencies") as provided in the amended delimitation order; (b) the sitting member of any two-member constituency in the state elected to fill the reserved leat therein shall be deemed 40 5 to have been elected to the house of the people or, as the case may be, to the state legislative assembly from that one of the corresponding new constituencies in which the seat has been reserved, and the other sitting member of that two-member constituency shall be deemed to have been elected from the other of the corresponding new constituencies; and 10 (c) any casual vacancy existing immediately before the said date in any two-member constituency in the state shall, if it be in the reserved seat, be deemed to be a casual vacancy in that one of the corresponding new constituencies in which the seat has been reserved, and if it be in the other seat, be deemed to be a casual vacancy in the other of the corresponding new constituencies is 20 8 (1) in section 19 of the bombay reorgwlisation act, 1960,-special provision (a) in sub-section (2), for clause (b), the following clause for gu~tj shall be substituted, namely: _ ~:ruon t 19 of act ii "(b) the assembly constituencies into which the state of 1960 shall be divided, the extent of each of such constituencips and in which of them seats shall be reserved for the scheduled castes or for the scheduled tribes; and"; (b) for sub-section (3), th~ following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-cc (3) in determining the matters referred to in elauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (2), the election commission shall have regard to the following provisions, namely:-(a) all the constituencies shall be single-member constituencies; (b) all the 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, facilitips of communication and public convenience; and 35 (c) eonstituencies in which seats are reserved either for the scheduled castes or for the schedu1ed tribes shall as far as practicable, be located in the areas in which the population of the scheduled castes or, asthe case may be, of the scheduled tribes is most concentrated, but in regard to scheduled castes, care should be taken to distribut9 the ft"lerved seats in different areas of the state", revision of 1 (1) after all the notifications have been published under th,= delimi- clause (c) of section 4 and the order referred to in sub-section (5) of t_uon order section 19 of the bombay reorganisation act, 1960, has been made, ii of j96o the commission shall-(a) make such further amendments in the delimitation s order as appear to it to be necessary for bringing up-to-date the description of the extent of all constituencies and for better arranging the order in which they are set out in the schedules to the delimitation order; and (b) send authenticated copies of the delimitation order as 10 so llinended and revised to the central government and to each of the state governments (2) af soon as may be after the revised delimitation order is received by the central government or a state government, it shall be laid before the house of the people or, as the case may be, before is the legislative assembly of the state power to 8 the commission may from time to time, by notification publishmaintain ed in the gazette of india and in the official gazette of the state delimitation concerned _ order up-, to-date (a) correct any printing mistake in the revised delimitation 20 order or any error arising therein from an inadvertent slip or omission, and (b) where the boundaries or name of any district or any territorial division mentioned in a schedule to the said order are or is altered, make such amendments as it appear to it to be as necessary or expedient for bringing the schedule up-to-date  statement of objects and reasonsin pursuance of articles 330 and 332 of the constitution, seats have been reserved for th~ scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes in the house of the people and the state legislative assemblies such reservation has genentlly been made· in two-member constituencies, though in a few cases, seats have been reserved in single-member constituencies also in each two-member constituency, one seat is reserved for the scheduled castes or, a~ the case may be, for the scheduled tribes 2 there has been considerable criticism against the system of resermtion of seats in two-member constituencies and the suggestion has often been made that all the seats reserved for the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes should be provided for in singlemember constituencies and that there should be no two-member constituencies at all members of scheduled castes and tribes generally favour small single-member constituencies which involve ie:'ss expenditure and trouble double-member constituencies ere incohvenient and cumbersome from the administrative point of view also it is, therefore, proposed to divide every two-member parliamentary and assembly constituency into two single-member constituencies, of which one should be reserved for the scheduled castes or, as the case ma~' be, for the scheduled tribes the bill seeks to achieve this object - <: ~    _  ,  ~  a k sen new delhi; the 16th december, 1960 s                                                                         -                                                              19 (1)                                          -                                              -                                                               special provisions in relation to guirat legislative a&sembly     (2) for the purpose of giving effect to the provlslons of sub-section (1), the election commission shall determine in the manner hereinafter provided-                   -                                     -                                                       -      (b) the assembly constituencies into which the state shall be divided, the extent of, and the number of seats to be allotted to, each such constituency, and the number of seats, if any, to be reserved for the scheduled castes or the scheduled tribes of the state in each such constituency; and     -                          -                                               -                                                                   -     (3) in determining the matters referred to in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (2), the election commission shall have regard to the provisions conbained in clauses (a)                                                     to (e) of sub-section                                                                                      (2) of section 8 of the delimitation commission act, 1952                                                                                               81 of i"~           -                                   -                                                          -                                                                                 -                                    a                                 bill to provide for the abolition of two-member parliamentary and    assem'bly  constituencies and for the creation of single-             membe,­ constituencies in their place  (shri &ok k s,n,       minuur of lari,)