1. These two Writ Appeals have been filed against the judgment of a learned Single Judge of this Court dated 8 91980 allowing O.P No. 2636 of 1980 filed by the common respondents in these two writ appeals and quashing the notification Ext. P2 dated 24 111979 issued by the Director of Municipalities, Trivandrum, effecting a de-limitation of the wards of the newly constituted Pathanamthitta Municipality and specifying which amongst those wards are the reserved wards for women and for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, as well as the order Ext. P3 passed by the Director of Municipalities rejecting a representation dated 23 21980 filed by the petitioner requesting that the fixation of ward No. 20 as the reserved ward for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes should be modified.

2. Pathanamthitta was a Panchayat until recently but on 25 91978 the Government ordered it to be constituted into a Municipality. S.56 of the Kerala Municipalities Act„ hereinafter called the Act, provides: "56. Election of municipal councillors:

(1) For the purposes of election of councillors to a municipal council the Government, after consulting the municipal council and after previous publicati