“We received appointment letters today (Thursday),” said sociologist Dambar Chemjong, a member of the commission. [break]
Asked when they would begin their work, Chemjong said that they would start work from early next week as an office for the commission has yet to be set up.
According to sources, handover of appointment letters was delayed as Ansari was busy as the coordinator of the probe commission formed to investigate the murder of former lawmaker Sadrul Miyan Haque. The government on May 23 had formed a three-member probe commission to investigate Haque´s murder.
The Interim Election Council on Thursday 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.
Geographer Netra Dhital, 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.
The CDC has been given one month to submit its report. The commission is entrusted with reviewing the existing 240 electoral constituencies in accordance 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 a retired justice of the SC as chairperson, a geographer, a sociologist and an administrator or management expert as members and a special class officer in the service of the government as member-secretary.
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