The State Government has given its clearance to conduct the second phase of panchayat elections in the 12 districts of the State. The State Election Commission (SEC) had sent a proposal to conduct the elections for Block level positions on July 27 and District level positions on August 5. The proposal of the SEC was presented to Chief Minister Harish Rawat who gave his nod for the schedule.
The State Government would notify these elections on July 18, the SEC would issue notification on July 19 and the District Magistrates would issue their notifications on July 20. Nominations for the Block positions would be on July 24, the date of withdrawal of names would be on July 26 and the election and result declaration would be on July 27. Similarly Nominations for the District Panchayat positions would be on July 30, withdrawal of names on August 2 and elections and result declaration would be on August 5. After the direct elections for the Panchayati raj bodies on June 18, 21 and 24 in the 12 districts of state that went to the Panchayat polls the 89 positions of Block Pramukhs and 12 positions of Member District Panchayat would be elected indirectly now. Apart from them the positions of Deputy Pradhan, Junior Deputy Pramukh, Senior Deputy Pramukh and Vice President District Panchayat would also be elected.
The newly elected 3054 Member Block Panchayat would elect 89 Block Pramukhs in their respective blocks while 389 member district Panchayat would elect the 12 President District Panchayat in their districts. The District President of Dehradun for example would be elected by 43 Members of District Panchayat while the President District Panchayat of Pauri Garhwal would be elected by 42 Members of district Panchayat.