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49 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বিতীয় খন্ড into 183 Urban Unions. Transforming the number and boundaries of Unions so as to form a local council per every 10,500 persons, specially in a short period and in a manner that the area may be feasible unit, strained administrative resourcefulness of local officers to the fullest extent. Care was, province was 40,000. This included the mouzas which came to Pakistan on 15th January 1959 as a result of implementation of Bagge Award in disputes I and II and it also included in theory areas within Pakistani enclaves in India, though for reasons of administrative difficulty people of such enclaves could not participate in voting, as no electoral rolls for them were prepared in 1957, nor could be prepared in 1959. Generally this was achieved by (a) fixation of number of Union in a subdivision by dividing its population by 10,500, (b)bringing the population of as many unions as possible to 10,500, (c) disturbing the boundaries of as few unions as possible. The resultant increase or decrease was, therefore, achieved, by joining small unions, dividing big unions and rearranging others so as to ensure continuity, compactness and administrative feasibility. Originally there were 3,583 Unions under the Bengal Village Self-Government and a few Panchayati Unions in 15 districts other than Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts, about 1,000 chowkidari circles in Sylhet district and 56 Municipalities in the province. The area of the new units was, therefore, small enough for all candidates to be personally known to each voter. This intimacy was one of the reasons for a record VOte. The delimitation of Unions and Town and Union Committees, as well as the division of the electoral rolls, were effected with commendable speed and finalized before the end of the month of November. Figures of wards are as follows: Single-member wards -- - - - - - - 16,689 Two-member wards * * - - - - - - 5,765 Three-member wards - - $ 8 -- - - 3,049 Multi-member wards (More than three members). s & 509 Special mention may be made here of two districts namely. Sylhet and Chittagong Hill Tracts where union boards did not exist. In Sylhet district which had no union hoards unlike other districts of this province, 2,860 elective seats were allotted to rural unions on the same basis of one seat per 1,050 populations. The tea gardens were also included in these set up. In actually delimiting the union boundaries, the existing chowkidari circles were grouped conveniently to conform to the above standard, as far as possible, In Chittagong Hill Tracts also which is the only district with the majority of the non-Muslim population (Tribal and Buddhist) the seats were allotted on the same basis and a total number of 270 seats were allotted to this district. The entire district with a population of nearly 3 lakhs was divided into 31 unions spread over three subdivisions each of which was declared a thana for the purpose of Basic Democracy.