Functions of the Board

It shall be the duty of the Board, - (i) to divide the city into such number of wards as may be necessary, having regard to the nuember of elected councillors determined by the Government for the Corporation under sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Act and the number of seats reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Women under section 6 of the Act; and (ii) to readjust the wards as and when the limits of the City are altered or there is increase in the population of the City or there is abnormal variation in population or voting figures at some of the wards of the City, which require such readjustment.