As many as 11 civic bodies spread out in eight districts, including insurgency-hit Sukma, Bijapur and Kanker, will go to polls on December 28, Chhattisgarh’s State Election Commissioner (CEC) PC Dalei announced here on Saturday.
The State Election Commission will also be holding by-polls in eight wards of four districts on December 28, informed Dalei, he added.
The results will be declared on December 31.
Those 11 civic bodies go to polls are Bhilai Municipal Corporation and Jamul Municipal Council in Durg district, Marro Nagar Panchayat (Bemetara), Khairagarh Municipal Council (Rajnandgaon), Baikunthpur Municipal Council and Shivapurcharcha Municipal Council (Koriya), Konta Nagar Panchayat in (Sukma), Bhairamgarh and Bhopalpatnam Nagar Panchayat in (Bijapur), Naharpur Nagar Panchayat (Kanker) and Premnagar Nagar Panchayat in (Surajpur).
Dalei further informed that eight wards to witness by-election on the same date are ward number-2 (Nayabaradwar Nagar Panchayat), ward-9 (Navagarh Nagar Panchayat) and ward-9 (Chandrapur Nagar Panchayat) in Janjgir-Champa, ward-6 of Bhakhara Nagar Panchayat (Dhamtari), ward-14 and ward-15 of Dondi Nagar Panchayat (Balod), ward-8 of Gandai Nagar Panchayat and ward number-22 of Dongargarh Municipal Council in Rajnandgaon district.
RsRsThe code of conduct for the civic body polls comes into effect with the announcement of the election schedule on Saturday,’’ Dalei said.
The nominations filing for Mayor, Nagar Panchayat President and corporators posts will begin from December 7 and last date for filling nomination will be December 14.
The scrutiny of the nomination papers will take place on December 15 whereas the last date for withdrawal of nomination papers is December 17.
As many as 620110 voters, including 318157 females have been enrolled for elections scheduled to be held on December 28. Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be used in the election for which 821 polling centers will be set up.
For transparent and free and fair polling necessary directives have been issued.
Polling for Naxal-infested nagar panchayats, Konta (Sukma), Bhairamgarh and Bhopalpatnam (Bijapur) and Naharpur (Kanker) will be held between 7 am- 3 pm whereas in other places polling time will be between 8 am-5 pm.