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PMC polls: Maharashtra government winds up the delimitation and reservation of seats

The Maharashtra government has published the final outcome of the delimitation and reservation process of seats for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) polls in its gazette. While the dates for the PMC elections are yet to be announced, as per the State Election Commission (SEC) directives, the poll can be held anytime between July and October.

TN City Desk

Updated Jun 15, 2022, 13:38 IST

Pune city

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Pune: The electoral process of delimitation and reservation of seats for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections has come to an end with the Maharashtra government publishing the final outcome in its gazette.

While the dates for the PMC elections are yet to be announced, as per the State Election Commission (SEC) directives, the poll can be held anytime between July and October. The PMC has been directed to work on the electoral roll by considering May 31 as the cut-off date.

The official gazette dated June 13 mentioned that the implementation of the election process is in accordance with the programme announced by the State Election Commission (SEC) on May 10. It also said that the boundaries on the electoral panel were published on May 13.

The reservation of seats for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) quota for the civic polls got the SEC’s nod on May 25. A lottery for deciding the reservation of seats was carried out on May 31 under the supervision of the municipal commissioner.

The civic polls will elect 173 corporators to the PMC with 87 seats reserved for women. Of the total seats, 23 are reserved under the SC quota and two under the ST quota, while 148 seats are in the open or general category as the Supreme Court has withdrawn the reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC).

A notable detail here is that the reservations of seats for women would result in the elected civic body having a majority of women as compared to men in the next five-year term.

Having decided to hold a panel system for the PMC elections, the state government has constituted 58 electoral panels. Three members each would be elected from 57 electoral panels and two members from one electoral panel.

“There are three stages in the elections for local civic bodies. The first one is completing delimitation and finalising reservation of seats, followed by preparing electoral roll on the basis of electoral panel and polling booth and the third stage is to hold the actual elections,” had said Kiran Kurundkar, secretary of the State Election Commission, in a communication to the PMC.

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