Program for general/bye elections of Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats 2021 announced

Model code of conduct comes into force with immediate effect within the municipality areas where elections will be held, last date of filing nominations is February 3, 2021.

State Election Commission, General Elections, Bye Elections- True Scoop

The State Election Commissioner, Punjab, Jagpal Singh Sandhu, today announced the schedule for general and bye elections of eight Municipal Corporations and 109  Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats .

With the announcement of the schedule, the 'Model  Code of Conduct' has come into  force with immediate effect within the municipal areas of the municipalities where elections will be held.  The Code of Conduct would be in force till the completion of the electoral process.

    Elaborating further, Mr.Jagpal Singh Sandhu said that the process for filing nominations would commence on January 30 and February 3 would be the last date. The nominations would be scrutinized on February 4, 2021 while the date of withdrawal of nominations is  February 5, 2021 which would also be the date of allotting the election symbols to the candidates.

Election Campaigning will end on February 12th at 5.00 PM. The voting would be held on February 14, 2021  from 08.00 Am to 4.00 PM.  Counting of votes would be done on February 17, 2021. 

145 Returning Officers and 145  Assistant Returning Officers have been appointed for conducting the elections. 30  IAS/PCS  officers would be appointed as Election Observers  and  six IPS officers will be appointed as Police observers to ensure the peaceful, free  and fair conduct of elections.

He said that 400  members would be elected for eight Municipal Corporations  and 1902 members would be elected for  109  Municipal councils/ Nagar Panchayats in the State.  

50% reservation has been given for women in municipal elections as per Punjab Government instructions. Voter list prepared by the E.R.O. Phagwara has many deficiencies and which has to be recast again. Therefore, the election of Phagwara Municipal Corporation will be held later on after preparing the voter list.   

Sandhu has also said that the voter lists of Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats had been updated with qualifying date of  01-01-2020. He appealed to the voters to participate the voting process with full zeal and honesty. There are 20,49,777 Male, 18,65,354 Female and 149 Transgender voters totaling 39,15,280  registered voters in the State of Punjab for these elections.

Commission has established  4102  polling booths and around 18000  personnel will be put on election duty. This election will be held by EVMs.  7000 EVMs  have been arranged for this purpose.

The State Election Commission further said that the expenditure limit for a candidate of Municipal Corporation has been fixed as Rs.3 lakh, for candidate of Municipal Council Class -I, Rs.2.70 lakh, Class-II- Rs.1.70 lakh, Class -III- Rs.1.45 lakh and candidates for Nagar Panchayats Rs.1.05 lakh.

He further said that keeping in view the COVID-19, SOP containing detailed guidelines were to be adopted during  the election process was issued on December 10, 2020.  For taking preventive measures for COVID-19, Rs.1.65 crore have been allocated to provide  masks, sanitizers, temperature guns and gloves to be used by the staff deployed for election duty. 

General elections of Municipal Corporations to be held in Abohar, Bathinda Batala, Kapurthala, S.A.S. Nagar,  Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Moga and bye election in the ward no 37 (backward classes) of municipal corporation Amritsar would also be held.

 

 


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