Delhi Election Commission Suspends Preparations For Civic Body Polls


 

The State Election Commission of Delhi has required to be postponed arrangements for the civil partnership surveys, that were because of be held in April, after the Center told the DMC (Amendment) Act, 2022, to combine the three urban bodies.

 State Election Commissioner of Delhi SK Srivastava, before his retirement on Wednesday, gave a warning to stop the preliminary strides for the municipal body surveys.

 He additionally revoked different warnings gave before by the commission for the arrangement of discretionary officials for the urban body surveys. 

The warnings presently repealed by the commission incorporate those gave for the arrangement of electing enrollment officials cum-returning officials for the wards of the three partnerships, area political decision official for the wards, eyewitnesses and different authorities for the civil enterprise surveys. 

Mr Srivastava had in March conceded the declaration of dates for the civil partnership surveys, amidst of a question and answer session, saying he had gotten a correspondence from the Center. He had said the Center was arranging unification of the North, East and South Delhi Municipal Corporations. 

Vijay Dev on Thursday assumed responsibility as the new state political decision chief of Delhi. He accepted intentional retirement as the central secretary of the Delhi government on April 20. 

Races to the three companies were keep going hung on April 23, 2017. The five-year term of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation will end on May 18, South Delhi Municipal Corporation daily later and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on May 22. 

The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022, sets down cutting down the current number of 272 wards to 250. It will require ward redrawing exercise that is supposed to defer the urban body surveys for a long time, authorities said.

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