There is a lot discussion going on regarding increase of Lok Sabha seats from 544 to 850. The Government offered that the number of seats would grow 1.5 times for each state from their current seat allocation in Lok Sabha. This offer was across the board: for all states to be implemented uniformly. The problem with the offer is that that even with 1.5 times of current seats, we would reach only 816 seats. This would be further reduced to 807 because for some Union Territories (UTs), where the current seat allocation is only one, it would make no sense to go to 1.5 seats. And, the seat allocation would be pulled back to one.
The excess of 43 seats, 850 - 807, needs to be distributed to states via some algorithm.
In my paper, whose link I give below, some methods of allocation of the excess seats has been shown. While deriving these methods I have made an important consideration: I've factored in the 'contribution to gdp of states' and 'population growth of states' with two sets of weightages: one, Population 70% versus GDP contribution 30%; two, Population 60% versus GDP contribution 40%. As will be seen in the paper, methods finally reach the cap of 1.5 times of current seats, but with a difference. We will be able to see for each state how much was the population component's contribution, and how much was the GDP component's contribution to the growth of seats in the Lok Sabha. Pay particular attention to these parameters in the paper given below, because these parameters are the real reason for writing this paper.
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