Three zones of the Coimbatore Corporation are likely to lose a ward each to the Central Zone, if the finalised draft of the ward reorganisation is anything to go by.

Officials in the civic body said that North, West and South zones would lose a ward each and they all would be part of the Central Zone, if the State Government approved of the same. The change was consequent upon the ward reorganisation exercise the civic body carried recently.

Town planning, revenue and administrative wings of the civic body undertook the ward reorganisation exercise in December so as to ensure equal distribution of population across the 100 wards. The Corporation has estimated the population at 15,84,719 and number of households at 4,37,078.

Before carrying out the exercise, the Corporation divided the population by 100 (wards) to arrive at the base population of each ward at 15,847. Likewise it also calculated the base household for each ward at 4,370.

The Corporation also arrived at population per household value at 3.63. With these parameters and keeping in mind the natural boundaries like canals and other man-made ones like railway line and layout, it redrew the ward boundaries, officials said.

While carrying out the exercise, the Government has given the Corporation an error margin of plus or minus 10 % on the population per ward and household per ward parameters.

Even as the exercise was under way, the Corporation officials said that the Government gave the civic body leverage by not asking it to strictly adhere to man-made boundaries while redrawing boundaries.

Now the civic body had completed the draft proposal and submitted it to the State Government, which would then release the same calling for objections or suggestions from the public. Thereafter, it would publish the same.

A district panchayat administration has undertaken a similar exercise for the 228 village panchayats, 12 panchayat unions and a district panchayat in the district and said the draft proposal made available for public at the respective village panchayat, panchayat union and taluk offices for public or political party representatives submit them writing. Or they could send the same by registered post by January 2.

The Tiruchi Corporation has prepared a draft proposal on delimitation of wards based on the 2011 census.

The move comes in accordance with a Bill passed in the State Assembly recently.

As per the proposal, there will be no change in the number of wards — 65 — in the Corporation. However, the areas of wards have been changed. While new areas have been added to wards that had lesser population, bigger wards have been reduced.

Equal population

The exercise has been done based on the 2011 census. The wards have been either reduced or increased depending upon the population. Each ward will have almost equal population, a senior civic official told The Hindu .

The draft proposal has been displayed in all four zones of the Corporation for public viewing. It will be displayed in taluk offices in the city too. People can submit their grievances or suggestions by January 2.

If necessary, the draft proposal will be modified by taking into account suggestions. The final proposal will be sent to the State Election Commission for final approval.