Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, December 13
Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Pardeep Kumar Agrawal said the process for filing of nominations for the upcoming gram panchayat elections would start from December 15 and continue till December 19.
Nominations can be filed between 11 am and 3 pm daily and a notification in this regard has already been issued by the State Election Commission.
Agrawal said the scrutiny of nomination papers would be held on December 20 and nominations could be withdrawal till 3 pm on December 21. Later, on the same day, election symbols would be allotted. Voting would be held from 8 am to 4 pm on December 30 and after counting, results would be declared the same evening, he said.
He said the election of 941 sarpanches and 6,391 panches would be carried out in a peaceful and transparent manner.
Pardeep Kumar Agrawal said the offices where nominations could be filed have already been decided. He said the nominations of villages under Dehlon block could be filed at the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer and the veterinary office. The nominations for villages under Doraha could be filed at offices of the nagar council and the Secretary, Market Committee. For Jagraon block, it can be filed at the Agriculture Office, Market Committee Office, Nagar Council Office and Food Supplies Office. For Khanna block, at Market Committee office; for the Ludhiana-1 block at Satguru Ram Singh Government Polytechnic College (girls), Rishi Nagar, Ludhiana; for the Ludhiana-2 block, at Government Senior Secondary School, Jawahar Nagar Camp, near bus stand; and for the Pakhowal block, at Block Development and Panchayat Office, Pakhowal.
For the Raikot block, nominations could be filed at the market committee office, Raikot; for the Machhiwara block, at the Block Development and Panchayat Office, Market Committee Office and Nagar Council Office, Sri Machhiwara Sahib. For the Malaud block, nominations can be filed at the Nagar Panchayat Office and Market Committee Office, Malaud; for Samrala, at the PWD Office, Nagar Council Office and Market Committee Office, Samrala; for Sidhwan Bet block, at the office of Child Development and Protection Officer and BPEO Office. The nominations of villages under Sudhar block can be filed at Guru Teg Bahadur Institute of Management & Technology, College Road, Dakha.
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