More than 38.78 lakh voters will exercise their franchise in 38 development blocks of Chhattisgarh for the second phase of three-tier Panchayat polls 2014-15 on Sunday. A total of 6,713 polling centres had been created out of which 2,075 have been declared as ‘sensitive’ and 1,173 as ‘hyper sensitive’. In the second phase, polling would be held for posts of 21,380 Panchs, 2,473 Sarpanchs, 730 janpad Panchayat members and 105 Zila panchayat members.
There are 56,333 candidates in the fray for posts of Panchs, 11,601 for Sarpanchs, 3,797 for Janpad Panchayat members besides 603 for Zila Panchayat members totalling, 72,334 members. The first phase of the Panchayat polls in the State held on January 28 this year was to elect 145 Zila Panchayat members, 1134 Janpad Panchayat members, 4163 sarpanchs and 36,745 panchs.