New Delhi, March 3 -- The Delimitation Commission, set up in March last year to redraw the electoral constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, is set to get an extension to complete its work, sources said on Tuesday.

An official notification in this regard could be issued on Wednesday, they added.

The panel has been tasked to redraw the Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies of the four northeastern states and work on increasing the number of Assembly seats in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

The commission has kept June 15, 2020 as the date for the freezing of the administrative districts in the four states and the Union Territory.

This would ensure that it does not have to rework on...