What do you understand by delimitation? Underlining the significance of delimitation exercise, throw light on the associated challenges.

Delimitation refers to division of territories into constituencies for the effectuation of a balanced and rightly representative electorate (Art 82). Delimitation - by Act 8 Parliament to ensure creation of territorial constituencies. It has been conducted 4 times since independence, inter and intra-state division. Significance of Delimitation: 1. Aids in 'evolutionary' character of representative democracy. 2. Jagi delimitation to capture new demography. 3. Balance the 'equity' debate as per population principle, as per census. 4. Shuffled population among different and number of constituencies to break creation of rigid power structures. 5. Aids franchise of people by providing proportional representation idea. 6. State's horizontal equity priority and pick for more representative Rajya Sabha at Union. 7. Rotation of SC/ST constituencies helps bring welfare closer historically disadvantaged community all throughout. Challenges: 1. Census as sole basis for delimitation gives quivers population control actions. 2. Southern states lucre plea against change & loss sashed settlement. 3. Bargaining size of nation pose logical and enumerative difficulties. 4. Time segmentation to marginalize lasting due to no proportional representation mix of FPTP + proportional representation. 5. Thus on graded criterion for creation of constituencies, with participation Finance Commission of ogplus 182. Delimitation, thus, is on exercise in constitutional design of constituencies, with participation and contribution delivery.