President Ram Nath Kovind gave his nod for resuming delimitation exercise in the North-eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland by rescinding/cancelling the February 8, 2008 order.
A Delimitation Commission was set up under the Delimitation Act, 2002 to readjust the division of each state and union territory into territorial constituencies for the purpose of Lok Sabha and state assembly elections on the basis of census figures of 2001.
Delimitation Commissions in India have been constituted four times in the past
In1952 under the Delimitation Commission Act, 1952,