State declares schedule
for civic elections
The
six municipal corporations of Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Bhavnagar
and Jamnagar will go to polls on September 17 along with the Una, Morbi
and Padra municipalities in the Junagadh, Rajkot and Vadodara districts
respectively, the state election commission announced on Thursday. Elections
have also been announced in 24 district panchayats, 12 taluka panchayats
in Banaskantha district and 212 taluka panchayats in 24 districts, which
will be held on September 24.
With the announcement of
the elections, the model code of conduct has come into force in the
state from Thursday itself and will remain in force till the election
day for the municipal corporations and district and taluka panchayats.
Candidates from different
parties will slug it out on 477 seats in the six municipal corporation
elections. The details of the seats in the six municipal corporations
are Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation 129, Rajkot 69, Vadodara 78, Surat
99, Bhavnagar 51 and Jamnagar 51.
A total of 26 seats have
been reserved for scheduled castes while 12 seats have been reserved
for women scheduled castes, five seats have been reserved for scheduled
tribes and three have been reserved for women scheduled tribes. As many
as 32 seats have been reserved for other backward class and 16 seats
reserved for women.
The Una municipality has
27 seats, Morbi 42 seats and Padra 27 seats.
Of the 774 district panchayat
seats, 312 seats are general seats while the seats falling under reserve
category are scheduled caste 37, schedule caste women 16, scheduled
tribes 112, scheduled tribe women 59, OBC 54 and OBC women 26.
Similarly of the 3,892
seats in the state, 1,586 fall under the reserve category where 242
seats are reserved for scheduled caste, 27 for scheduled caste women,
536 for scheduled tribes, 258 for scheduled tribe women, 225 for OBC,
201 for OBC women. As many as 817 seats in the general category have
also been reserved for women.
Republished from Asian
Age
