Display delimitation map, says SAD

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, March 20

The SAD leaders have taken a serious note of the administration’s laxity in not displaying the map showing delimitation of the wards for the coming Nagar Council elections. The leaders also alleged that the administration was not ready to give the photostat copies of the map to general public to lodge objections if any over the delimitation of the wards.

The election for the Nagar Council was expected any time as it could not be held with the election of other local bodies.

The SAD leaders, led by Bhupinder Singh Khera, a former president of the Municipal Council, said the district administration through an advertisement published in a Punjabi daily on Friday had invited objections over the delimitation of the wards from the general public to be submitted within seven days from the publication of the notice.

The SAD leaders said that the authorities had neither displayed the map of the delimitation of the wards on the public places nor the administration was ready to give copy of the map to study the ward limitations.

The local self-government had increased the number of wards of the Municipal Council from 23 to 25.

The Bath Road called Malhia Khurd and a well established colony on the Amritsar road in Kakka Kandiala village had been included in the Nagar Council, Tarn Taran.

Kamaljit Singh, Executive Officer of the Municipal Council, said that it was not possible to display the delimitation map as it was big in size and could be stolen. He said the map had been shown to SAD leaders.