Women candidates will be benefitted with 50 per cent reservation in the forthcoming panchayat election 2015 in Hazaribagh district. The verifications and modification is electoral list is on progress. This will be complete upto July 31.
The women reservations on the different seats have been sent to election commission for the recommendations. After confirmation, the list will be published by the district administration.
Deputy Commissioner of Hazaribagh Mukesh Kumar said on Thursday in a press conference that they are ready to conduct the panchayat election 2015 and have made all arrangements for fair and smooth poll.
He said that this election will be held for the post of 32 members of district board, 257 Mukhiya’s, 317 member panchayatsimiti, 3186 member of wards. In this year the election will be held on 3792 seats, out of 3792 the 1896 seats will be reserved for women candidate of General, Schedule Cast, Schedule Tribe and Other Backward Class.
The proposal of reservation has been sent to the Election Commission. We hope that we will receive the recommendation up to July 31. After the reservation list will be published by the district administration DC said that the reservation will be on rotational basis.
He said that they have made the special plan to conduct the fair and smooth poll in the naxal affected villages of the district. It is noted that Hazaribagh district has divided into 16 blocks. In which maximum blocks are naxal affected. It will be great challenge for the administration to conduct the fair and smooth polls in these areas. In this election 763 seats has increased due to new
The first election of panchayat was held in the Jharkhand in December 2009. In this election the total seats of panchayat election in Hazaribagh district was 3029. In which 257 each seats for Mukhiya’s and member of panchayat, 2500 for ward members and 25 seats for the district board members.