Panchayat elections Vote count to commence from sunday

The counting of votes of the panchayat elections for the member district panchayat and member kshetra samiti would began across the state from Sunday morning at 8 am.. The counting   of votes will be held at 819 counting centers in 74 districts for 3112 posts of member district panchayat and 77,576 members of kshetra panchayat.

The State election commission SK Agarwal said here on Saturday that the commission has directed for the videography of the entire proce4ss of counting of votes.  The counting of votes for both member district panchayat and member kshetra panchayast will be done simultaneously but on different tables.

He said along with the election results the profile of the winning candidates like their education qualification and total number of votes polled by each candidate will be available on the website of the commission. He said the commission for the first time provides the election results to the winning candidates through SMS on their cell phone. This facility will however be available to only those candidates who had registered their number at the time of filing their nomination papers.