With municipal elections nearing, several city MLAs have raised the alarm over illogical ward boundaries that crisscross Assembly constituencies, leaving voters confused and governance fragmented.
Currently, many municipal wards (prabhags) are split across two or even three Assembly segments. This bizarre overlap forces citizens to juggle between multiple MLAs for basic civic issues—depending on their polling booth location, not their neighborhood.
Take East Nagpur: only 4 of its 10 wards lie fully within the constituency. The rest are scattered across North, Central, and South Nagpur. Ward 4, for instance, is 60% East, 40% North Nagpur. Wards 21, 22, 27, and 28 are similarly divided between multiple constituencies, creating administrative chaos.
Central Nagpur suffers too. Ward 21 is torn into three Assembly segments, and Ward 17 has 18 booths in Central and 32 in South-West Nagpur. Voters in Untkhana and Wakilpeth face dual identities, shifting between constituencies for Assembly and civic polls.
West Nagpur is no better—Ward 9 (Gaddigodam) spans North and West Nagpur, while Ward 13 (Pandhrabodi) stretches into South-West Nagpur.
Frustrated MLAs are now demanding a delimitation overhaul, pushing for each ward to fall entirely within one Assembly seat. They say this will ensure clarity for voters, accountability for corporators, and better coordination with MLAs.
All eyes are now on the Delimitation Committee and State Election Commission to clean up this messy map before polls begin.
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