The Hindu 23.03.2017
Municipal election put off by a day
Date was clashing with Board exam
Voting in the elections to the municipal corporations of Delhi would
be held on April 23, not April 22 as announced earlier, the Delhi State
Election Commission decided on Wednesday.
The State Election
Commission also changed the date for counting, from April 25 to April
26, as school examinations on April 22 were clashing with voting day.
The
CBSE examination for Hindi (Elective) among other courses would be held
on April 22, and many of the examination centres would also be used as
polling stations, said State Election Commissioner S.K. Srivastava.
Despite trying, the State Election Commission was unable to overcome the
shortage of polling stations on April 22.
As per the notification
issued by the Commission, while the date of polling and counting has
changed, the rest of the poll schedule remains the same.
Last date of nomination
The
election notification will be out on March 27, the last date for
nomination would be April 3, scrutiny of documents on April 5 and last
date for withdrawal of nominations would be April 8. The Election
Commission had released the original schedule on March 14.
The much-awaited polls will decide the fate of 272 councillors. While NDMC and SMDC have 104 seats each, EDMC has 64 seats.
