Delimitation

After a lot of procrastination, the delimitation commission of india's notification has finally been accepted and passed into a law. Let us look at what it would do.
Basically it would divide the total number of LokSabha and VidhanSabha seats in each state according to the population so that each constituency has equal population.
Some of the constituencies will be abolished, others increased or pared down in size to reflect the demographic equality.
The urban centres within the states would get increased number of MPs and MLAs. thus increasing the influence these centres would have on the polity. this also reflects the growing population in the urban centres.
However the total number of seats would not be increased which is sad really. It has been increasingly felt that the parliamentarians have grown far apart from the common man. India needs in excess of 1000 loksabhas if it is to be governed properly. the number of seats have been frozen as the south indian states have protested saying thier numbers are coming down and they are being punished for a better population control.
There is a solution to this dilemma. let the number of seats be increased in all the seats in a proportional manner so that the relative number of seats for each state remains the same.
The next delimitation committee should be given a mandate to increase the number of seats and not just shuffle them as it has done this time.