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Pune: SEC directs PMC to stop election process amid govt ordinance to amend Maharashta Municipal Corporation Act

The State Election Commission has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation to stop its election process until further instructions. The halt has been directed in view of an ordinance passed by the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government to amend some clauses of Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act.

TN City Desk

Updated Aug 6, 2022, 17:22 IST

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Pune: The State Election Commission (SEC) has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to halt its election process till further notice. The commission's order comes in view of an ordinance issued by the Eknath Shinde-led state government to amend the clauses related to civic elections in the Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act.

SEC Secretary Kiran Kurundkar, in an official order dated August 4 announced the same. The civic bodies are directed to stop the election process till further orders, he said.

“The state has promulgated the ordinance to make amendment to Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act and Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act and thereby change the total number of seats of the municipal corporations. It has also annulled the process of delimitation and reservation done so far by the State Election Commission and has provided that such process shall be started afresh,” Kurundkar stated.

Through the amendment, the previous method for fixing the strength of corporators for each municipal corporation will be restored.As per the amendment, a cicv corporation with a population more than 30 lakhs will have a minimum of 161 elected corporators and the number will increase for each 1 lakh population.

Thus, the strength of corporators in PMC is likely to be 166 as against 173 corporators for which the election process of delimitation and reservation of seats was conducted.

In the last term, the PMC had 164 seats but the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government had increase the number of seats to 173 considering the population growth in the last 10 years. The delay in completion of 2021 Census due to pandemic was unable to give the exact population of civic bodies.

The SEC is following 2011 Census figures for the election process.

As per an official, the PMC had already completed the process of delimitation, reservation of seats and finalisation of electoral rolls for the civic elections as per the direction of the State Election Commission. However now that will change.

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