A three-phased polling will be held in Chhattisgarh on January 24, January 28 and February 1, State Election Commissioner P C Dalei announced on Wednesday. With announcement of the dates for panchayats, the model code of conduct has come into force with immediate effect, Dalei told a crowded Press conference here.
Dalei said that the election would be held for 402 members of 27 zila panchayats, 2973 members of 146 janpad panchayats, sarpanchs of 10955 gram panchayats and 155595 panchs across the State.
In total 2,8537 polling booths have been established for the panchayat elections out of which 1,0588 have been identified as sensitive and 4,513 as hypersensitive, said Dalei, adding, that proper security arrangements will be made.
Choppers will also be used if required for transporting the polling parties in insurgency-hit areas. Polling will be held with ballot papers from 7 am to 3 pm in all development blocks of all districts except the development blocks of Narayanpur, Dantewada, Sukma and Bijapur districts besides Koyalibeda, Antagarh, Bhanupratappur and Durgukondal development blocks of Kanker district where the polling will be held from 8 am to 3 pm.
The filing of nomination papers for all the three phases will start from December 31 and will conclude on January 7, 2015. The scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on January 8, 2015 and the last date for withdrawal of nominations is January 10, 2015 for all three phases. The results for panch, sarpanch and members of janpad panchayats will be announced on January 28, January 31 and February 4 for the first, second and third phase respectively.
Similarly the results of zila panchayat members will be declared at district headquarters on January 29, February 1 and February 5 for first, second and third phase respectively.