The state election commissioner clarified that GMC polls can’t be held
until the delimitation of the wards is completed. The government has
decided to bring down the number of GMC wards from 60 to 31 this time.

The GMC authorities were asked to publish the draft on the delimitation
by Friday in a meeting convened by the state election commission in
March first week.

“It will take some more time to finalize the
map of the 31 new wards. We have requested the state election commission
to extend the deadline,” said GMC collector Deba Kumar Mishra.

The elected body of the GMC stands dissolved since May 2008 after
several GMC councillors resigned due to an internal rift. Since then, it
has been functioning without public representatives.