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Guwahati: Assam officials moved fast this Sunday. The government redrew the jurisdictional boundaries of 312 police stations to match the state's 126 Legislative Assembly constituencies. These changes take effect immediately. The shift follows a 2025 Superintendents of Police Conference resolution stating that no single station should span multiple MLA constituencies.
Additional Chief Secretary for Home and Political Affairs Ajay Tewari confirmed the move in an official notification. The state acted after the Election Commission of India finished the delimitation of parliamentary and Assembly seats. The government wants police limits and Legislative Assembly constituency boundaries to be coterminous. This creates a cleaner administrative arrangement for local law enforcement.
Police Headquarters drove the proposal. Senior officers sent in reports on boundary zones, village inclusions, and urban wards before the government finalized the map. Authorities verified these local details before pushing the plan through. The Home and Political Department noted that further shifts could occur. They will handle additional reorganisation within individual assembly seats as needed. "The exercise was aimed at ensuring that police station jurisdictions and LAC boundaries are coterminous," the department stated regarding the new protocol.
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