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CONSTITUTION OF COUNCIL.— 9[(1) The Government shall, in accordance with the criteria specified in sub-section (3), notify the total number of seats of the Councillors to be filled up by direct election in a Town Panchayat, Municipality and Municipal Corporation considering the population of the area of the Municipality concerned. (2) The Government may, after publishing the relevant data according to each census, vary the total number of seats of Councillors in a Municipality notified under sub-section (1) subject to the criteria specified in sub-section (3). (3) The number of seats of Councillors notified under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), shall be,— (a) In the case of a Town Panchayat or a Municipal Council,— (i) Twenty, where the population in the area of the Town Panchayat or Municipal Council does not exceed twenty thousand, and (ii) Where the population of the Town Panchayat or Municipal Council exceeds twenty thousand, twenty, for the population of first twenty thousand, and one each for every two thousand and five hundred of the population exceeding twenty thousand, subject to a maximum of fifty Councillors; (b) In the case of a Municipal Corporation,— (i) fifty, where the population in the area of the Municipal Corporation does not exceed four lakhs, and