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Notification issued for election to urban local bodies

Saturday, 16 February 2013 09:51 administrator
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The Hindu                             16.02.2013

Notification issued for election to urban local bodies

Election model code of conduct has come into force from February 15.

Deputy Commissioner and the district returning officer Sameer Shukla has issued the notification announcing elections for the urban local bodies (ULB) in the district here on Friday.

Accordingly, the elections for the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), the Town Municipal Councils of Navalgund and Annigeri and the town panchayats of Alnavar, Kalghatagi and Kundagol will be held on March 7. Reservation of wards will be according to the reservation list of 2007.

The election model code of conduct has come into force from February 15 and will be in force till elections are completed. Filing of nomination papers will begin on February 16 and the last date for filing nomination papers is February 23. The scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on February 25 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is February 27. The voting if necessary will be held on March 7 from 7 a.m to 5 p.m. The re-polling if necessary will be held on March 9. Counting of votes will begin at 8 a.m. in all taluk headquarters on March 11 and the results will be announced on the same day, the release said.

The nomination papers will be received at following places:

HDMC- Dharwad — Ward 1-5: HDMC Revenue office, Ward 6-10: HDMC Executive Engineer’s office; Ward 11-15: Museum hall; Ward 16-20: HDMC meeting hall 1st floor.

HDMC- Hubli — Ward 21-24: HDMC zonal office No 4, Navnagar; Ward 25-29: Room No 101, HDMC office; Ward 30-34: Room No 102, HDMC office; Ward 35-39: Room No 103, HDMC office; Ward 4-44: Room No 104, HDMC office; Ward 45-48: Nagar Bhavan, J. C. Nagar; Ward 49-53: Room No 106, HDMC office; Ward No- 54-58: town planning director’s office, HDMC; Ward 59-63: legal cell, HDMC; Ward 64-67: assistant director’s office (administrative), HDMC.

Navalgund — Ward 1-12: tahsildar’s office; Ward 13-23: Grade 2 tahsildar’s office

Annigeri — Ward 1-12- TMC office; Ward 13-23: APMC office.

Alnavar — Ward 1-15: town panchayat new office

Kalghatagi — Ward 1-13: town panchayat auditorium

Kundagol — Ward 1-15: tahsildar’s office.

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 09:54
 

Municipal Corporation takes up Vishwamitri project with minister

Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:30 administrator
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The Times of India                        15.02.2013

Municipal Corporation takes up Vishwamitri project with minister

VADODARA: The issue of Vishwamitri rejuvenation was the highlight of discussion between the top brass of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) and urban development minister Anandiben Patel on Thursday. Experts from VahoVishwamitriAbhiyan (VVA) project, a non-governmental initiative also participated in the deliberations.

Both the VMC and the VVA made presentations before Patel regarding the project with the VMC focusing on its short-term and long-term planning for rejuvenation of the river. The VVA too made a presentation on its suggestions for work on the river.

Officials said that the VMC gave details of how within a time span of three years it proposed to make the river alive again. Its focus was ensuring that untreated sewage water and garbage was not dumped into the river.

Also, it gave details of how it planned to relocate slum dwellers on the banks of the river.

The longer objectives of the VMC's plan include developing its banks with recreational and other facilities. It also plans to have a crocodile park.

Sources said that Patel suggested that the VMC rope in experts who had experience of handling similar projects. She was also of the opinion that various aspects of the project should be planned and analyzed threadbare before beginning work in a major way on the project.
Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:34
 

28 corporators in poll fray for 14 district planning council posts

Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:13 administrator
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The Times of India                        15.02.2013

28 corporators in poll fray for 14 district planning council posts

NAGPUR: After a lull in political activity at Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), corporators are back in election mode with district planning council (DPC) polls on February 20. Some 28 corporators are in the fray for the 14 posts. There are 20 posts for NMC in DPC, but six corporators have already been elected unopposed.

Additional collector Asha Pathan said three corporators from OBC category - Jagdish Gwalbansi, Sanjay Balpande and Sanjay Mahakalkar - had been elected unopposed. Three women from OBC category - Meen Tidke, Rekha Barahate and Jayashree Wadibhasme - have also been elected opposed.

There are another 20 posts in DPC for local body members. Seventeen for Nagpur zilla parishad (ZP) members while three are for the thirteen municipal councils in the district. Of the seventeen ZP seats, three candidates have already been elected unopposed.

The voting system is preferential and quite complicated. Many public representatives may end up casting invalid votes. Pathan said the priority of the candidates should be either written in English or Marathi numerals. A mixture of the two will make the vote invalid. The voter has to compulsorily give a candidate the first priority else his or her vote will become invalid. There are several other complications in this voting system.

There is one post for SC corporator of NMC. Four members; Wasudeo Dhoke, Prasanna Borkar, Murlidhar Meshram and Raju Lokhande are in the fray. For the two posts of SC women category, six corporators - Sujata Kombade, Manisha Ghodeswar, Saroj Bahadure, Satyabhama Lokhande, Vidya Lonare and Anita Wankhede have thrown their hats in the ring.

The election for six seats in open category is the most complicated and tough. There are nine candidates - Dipak Kapse, Aslam Khan, Kishor Gajbhiye, Sandip Joshi, Harish Dikondwar, Gautam Patil, Duneshwar Pethe, Parinay Fuke and Purushottam Hazare -in the fray.

No less tough is the election for five women in open category for which nine members are in fray. They are Iftikar Ashrafu, Prerna Kapse, Manisha Kothe, Harshala Jaiswal, Alka Dalal, Divya Dhurde, Sarika Nandurkar, Kiran Rodge and Shabana Parveen.

There will be two polling booths for 145 corporators in new Setu Kendra in district collectorate premises. The first is for corporators representing ward no 1 to 72 and second for those representing ward no 73 to 145.
Last Updated on Saturday, 16 February 2013 04:18
 
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