The Pauri district magistrate and district election officer (Panchayat) Chandra Shekhar Bhatt said that the schedule for the by-election for the vacant posts of Gram Panchayat Pradhan, members of Gram Panchayat and Block Panchayat has been finalised with the notification of Uttarakhand State Election Commission. The Model Code of Conduct will be enforced in the area in question till October 19.
Bhatt informed that October 5 and 6 have been fixed as the dates for the sale of nomination papers and depositing of filled nomination papers from 10 am to 5 pm. The scrutiny of the nomination papers will be conducted on October 7. The date for the withdrawal of nomination has been set on October 8 from 10 AM to 1 PM. The symbol will be allocated to candidates on October 9 and the voting for the vacant post will be held on October 17 from 8 AM to 5 PM. The counting of votes will be held on October 19 from 8 AM till it is completed and the result will be declared after the completion of counting on the same day.
The DEO (Panchayat) said that the by election will be held to the vacant posts of 115 members of Gram Panchayat in all the block Panchayats of the district excluding block Panchayats of Pauri and Pokhra and for the posts of Gram Pradhan of Kathulibari in Beerokhal block and in Bannasamalla and Kimsar in Yamkeshwar block. All the activities of the by election will be ensured at the block headquarter concerned.
Bhatt said that the returning officers and assistant returning officers appointed in 13 blocks include AP Vaishnav and Sunil Kumar Singh in Thalisain block, Mahaveer Singh and Pramod Kumar in Nainidanda, Ramesh Negi and Arzu Hassan in Beerokhal, Chandan lal Rahi and Kirti Vallabh in Rikhanikhal, Rajpal Singh and Amar Singh in Yamkeshwar, Jayendra Bharadwaj and Chandra Shekhar in Jaiharikhal, Suman Rana and Devkinandan in Dwarikhal, Asha Ram Pant and Sripati lal in Ekeshwar, Devi Prasad Raturi and Sabar Singh Negi in Kot, Shiv Prasad Thapliyal and Surendra Tamta in Khirsu, Prakash Chandra Verma and Virendra Rawat in Kaljikhal, Pushkar Bisht and RS Negi in Paubo and Hari Sudha Rawat and Sunder Singh Negi in Dugadda block respectively. All the officers have been instructed to ensure that the model code of conduct is implemented effectively in their respective blocks till October 19.