Election to 147 local bodies on Jan. 28

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 23. The State Election Commission has decided to hold elections on January 28 to four municipal corporations, 31 city municipal councils (CMC), 76 town municipal councils (TMC) and 36 town panchayats (TP).

Giving the calendar of events, the State Election Commissioner, Mr. G. Muniyappa, said that the notification of election would be issued on January 8. The last date for filing nominations is January 15 and the last date for withdrawal of nominations is January 18. Scrutiny of applications will take place on January 16.

Elections to the 147 local bodies will be held between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on January 28 and counting of votes will take place on January 29 from 8 a.m. at the headquarters of he local bodies.

Mr. Muniyappa said the Election Commission had made elaborate arrangements for the polls. Of the 7,768 polling stations in the State, 1,992 had been identified as hyper sensitive and 2,733 as sensitive. In all, 33,900 polling personnel would be deployed. The number of electorate, he said, was 64,73,770 with the number of women being 31,41,322.

Of the 245 wards in the four corporations, 89 wards have been reserved for women. Reservation for women in CMCs are 378 wards out of 1,013; 683 wards out of 1,800 TMCs and 254 of the 629 TP wards.

The four municipal corporations going to the polls are of Mysore, Belgaum, Hubli, Dharwad and Gulbarga. The local bodies are Bangalore Urban - 1 CMC and 1 TMC; Bangalore Rural - 3 CMCs and 5 TMCs; Chitradurga - 1 CMC and 2 TMCs; Davanagere - 2 CMCs and 1 TP; Kolar - 2 CMCs and 5 TMCs; Shimoga - 2 CMCs, 2 TMCs and 1 TP; Tumkur - 1 CMC and 5 TMCs; Mysore - 3 TMCs and 1 TP; Chamarajanagar - 1 CMC and 2 TMCs; Chikmagalur - 1 CMC, 2 TMCs and 1 TP; Hassan - 1 CMC, 4 TMCs and 1 TP; Mandya - 1 CMC, 3 TMCs and 1 TP; Kodagu - 1 TMC; Belgaum - 2 CMCs, 7 TMCs and 6 TPs; Bijapur - 1 CMC, 4 TMCs and 1 TP; Bagalkot - 2 CMCs, 5 TMCs and 3 TPs; Dharwad - 1 TMC and 3 TPs; Gadag - 1 CMC, 3 TMCs and 4 TPs; Haveri - 1 CMC, 4 TMCs and 2 TPs; Uttara Kannada - 3 CMCs, 2 TMCs and 3 TPs; Gulbarga - 7 TMCs and 1 TP; Bellary - 2 CMCs, 1 TMC and 5 TPs; Bidar - 1 CMC and 4 TMCs; Raichur - 1 CMC, 2 TMCs and 2 TPs.

Mr. Muniyappa said the government had notified the reservation of seats and the same had been sent to Deputy Commissioners. He hoped that the Government would not effect any change in the reservation anymore.

Asked whether voting machines would be used in the polls, he said the Government had rejected the commission's proposal to use voting machines.

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