The State election Commission for local bodies has geared up for the elections of urban local bodies before July 15. The notification for the elections to urban local bodies is likely to be issued before May 25. Elections are to be held for 14 Nagar Nigam and 915 local bodies which includes Nagar Palika parishad and nagar panchyat.
The State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal said here on Saturday that the last elections of the urban local bodies were held in 2012 from May 25 to July 2 and the first meeting of the elected urban local bodies was held on July 15 2012. He said as per the article 243 –U of the Constitution the process of elections to urban local bodies has to be completed and the elected bodies have to be constituted before July 15 next. SEC said very little time of less than six weeks is left and within this time the Commission has to complete the process of the delimitation of the wards of the urban local bodies, rapid survey for estimating the population of the other backward casts (OBCs) for the reservation of wards. He said this work has to be completed before May 25. He said during this time the commission has also to revise the electoral rolls. The SEC on Saturdayheld video conferencing with all the 75 district magistrates. He asked the district magistrates that as per the orders of the urban development department the process of delimitation of wards be completed by April 12 and the same be send to director local bodies.
For the reservation of wards for the OBCs, State Election commissioner said the process of reservation in all urban local bodies be completed by April 27. The SEC also directed the district magistrates prepare the data of the state employees to be deployed for the election duty as per the `Election staff deployment software’’.