The panchayat elections in Kanpur (nagar) are likely to be postponed on account of the One day international cricket match between India and South Africa on October 11. The election in the district is scheduled to be held in the first phase of the panchayat elections which are to be conducted in four phases.
The two day nomination process for the filing of papers for the post of member district panchayat and member kshetra panchayat began on Monday. On the first day 3,686 nomination papers were filed on Monday for the post of member district panchayat while over 31,000 papers were filed for the post of member kshetra panchayat. In the first phase 921 seats of member district panchayat and 20,000 post of member kshetra panchayat will go to polls. In the first phase of polls 212 development blocks spread in 73 districts will be covered.
The scrutiny of nomination papers for the first phase of polls will be held on September 3 and the last date of the withdrawal of papers is October 3 and the polling will be held on October 9. The nomination papers for the second phase of polls will be filed from October 1 and polling will be held onOctober 13. In second phase 203 development blocks will be covered where 888 seats of member district panchayat and 19,520 seats of member kshetra panchayat will go to polls. The nomination papers for the third phase of polls will be filed from October 6 and polling will be held on October 17.
For the fourth and the last phase the nomination papers will be filed from October 9 and polling will be held on October 29. Counting of voted will be taken up on November 1, across the state.