The Interim Election Council on June 13 had announced November 19 as the date for Constituent Assembly (CA) polls and had decided to form the commission under former justice Tahir Ali Ansari.[break]
Geographer Netra Dhital, Dambar Chemjong and administrator Madhu Nidhi Tiwari are the members of the commission, while Secretary at the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Minister Raju Man Singh Malla is member secretary of the commission.
Malla said that Acting Chief Justice Damodar Prasad Sharma will administer the oath of secrecy to Ansari and then Ansari will administer the oath of secrecy to the members in the presence of Sharma at the Supreme Court at 10:30 am on Tuesday.
The office for the commission has been set up at the International Convention Centre at New Baneshwar.
The government had given appointment letters to members of the commission only on Thursday as Ansari was busy as the coordinator of the probe commission formed to investigate the murder of former lawmaker Sadrul Miyan Haque.
The CDC has been given one month to submit its report. The commission is entrusted with reviewing the existing 240 electoral constituencies in line with the latest census report.
According to Article 154 A of the Interim Constitution, the government may constitute a Constituency Delimitation Commission to determine election constituencies for the purpose of electing of members of the Constituent Assembly, and the commission shall consist of a retired justice of the SC as chairperson, and a geographer, a sociologist and an administrator or management expert as members, and a special class civil servant as member-secretary.
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