Team Goemkarponn
Panaji: The Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) has decided against undertaking a fresh ward delimitation exercise ahead of the forthcoming municipal elections in Goa.
The civic polls will now be conducted using the existing ward boundaries that were in place during the 2021 elections.
The decision follows a State government order imposing a freeze on all administrative boundaries, including municipal limits, village jurisdictions and assembly segments.
The freeze has come into effect from December 31, 2025, and will remain in force until March 31, 2027, in view of preparations for the Census 2027.
As a result, elections to Goa’s 11 municipalities, scheduled for April 2026, will be held without any changes to ward configurations. The same applies to the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), where elections are due in March and will also follow the existing ward structure.
Officials from the DMA confirmed that the earlier proposal to redraw wards or increase the number of wards in certain municipalities has been put on hold.
Any such exercise will now be taken up only after the census process is completed, likely ahead of the 2031 municipal elections.
