BMC election will be held on February 16 (Thursday) and the results will be declared on February 17 (Friday), state election commissioner Neela Satyanarayana said.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election will be held on February 16 (Thursday) and the results will be declared on February 17 (Friday), state election commissioner Neela Satyanarayana said on Tuesday.
“People often go out of town on Sundays and so, we decided to hold elections on a working day. This is to ensure that people carry out their electoral responsibilities,” she said, adding that the model code of conduct is now into effect.
Elections in nine other municipal corporations — Thane, Ulhasnagar, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Solapur, Akola, Amravati and Nagpur — will also be held on February 16 while the state’s district councils (zilla parishads) will go to polls on February 7.
Satyanarayana said the cut-off date for voters to register themselves is January 5. She said 23 lakh new voters, including 3 lakh in Mumbai, were added during a special voter registration drive in October 2011.
The names of the voters will be published on January 12 following which they will be allowed to make corrections against their names such as change of ward. “But no new names will be added,” said Chand Goel, additional chief secretary, SEC. The final list of voters will be published on January 23.
“The civic polls will be held before school exams which begin on February 21 and end on March 21,” Satyanarayana said. “HSC exams start on February 21 while the SSC exams begin later and end on March 31.” Satyanarayana said some corporations have expressed a desire to announce the results on the same day and that it was being considered. “With electronic voting machines, counting is easier and faster. Announcing the results on the same day will be beneficial,” she said.
The Mumbai collector mentioned about the difficulties in finding places to set up election centres and has sought permission to have them on the second floor of buildings. “But we are against it because it will be a hindrance to the elderly. We want voting centres on the ground floor,” Satyanarayana said. She said a voting centre could be set up wherever there were 1,000 voters.
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