Moving a step forward in conduct of the next elections to the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), the State Government has completed delimitation of wards and reservation of seats in three Municipal Corporations, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Brahmapur.
The Housing and Urban Development Department has issued several notifications listing out reservation of seats in the three urban bodies and also delimitation of wards.
The final notification has been issued after inviting objections and suggestions from all stakeholders, officials said here on Saturday.
As per the notification, the Mayor seat for the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC) have been kept reserved for women candidates while the Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Mayor post is unreserved.
“In pursuance of sub-section (4) of section 14 of the Odisha Municipal Corporation Act, 2003, the State Government hereby reserved the offices of the Mayor of the Municipal Corporations,” read the notification.
Besides, the BMC has been divided into 67 wards while the CMC has 59 wards and the BeMC 42 wards.
In the BMC, 38 wards have been reserved for various categories, including women. Out of this, three Corporator seats are reserved for SC (women), three for SC, two for ST (women) and another ST.
In the CMC, 33 Corporator seats have been kept reserved, of which four are reserved for SC (women), three for SC and one for ST (women).
Out of the 23 reserved Corporator seats in the BeMC, two are reserved for SC (women), two for SC and one for ST (women).
Other reserved seats in the three Corporations are kept for women candidates.
It is pertinent to mention here that the civic bodies have been running without public representatives since 2018 after the tenure of the last elected Corporators and Councillors ended.