The Hindu       23.03.2017  

Municipal election put off by a day

Date was clashing with Board exam

Voting in the elections to the municipal corporations of Delhi would be held on April 23, not April 22 as announced earlier, the Delhi State Election Commission decided on Wednesday.

The State Election Commission also changed the date for counting, from April 25 to April 26, as school examinations on April 22 were clashing with voting day.

The CBSE examination for Hindi (Elective) among other courses would be held on April 22, and many of the examination centres would also be used as polling stations, said State Election Commissioner S.K. Srivastava. Despite trying, the State Election Commission was unable to overcome the shortage of polling stations on April 22.

As per the notification issued by the Commission, while the date of polling and counting has changed, the rest of the poll schedule remains the same.

Last date of nomination

The election notification will be out on March 27, the last date for nomination would be April 3, scrutiny of documents on April 5 and last date for withdrawal of nominations would be April 8. The Election Commission had released the original schedule on March 14.

The much-awaited polls will decide the fate of 272 councillors. While NDMC and SMDC have 104 seats each, EDMC has 64 seats.