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Civic body Attempts SEC directives on BMC Surveys

MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has hunted directives in the State Election Commission (SEC) about running the civic election in 2022 at light of this Covid-19 pandemic.
The election into the nation’s wealthiest civil body has been scheduled early next year however, officials explained that in light of this pandemic, brand new directives were significant in the SEC.
“There might be a requirement to improve election booths in town remembering the demand for social media in the aftermath of Covid.
Presently every booth is understood to have approximately 15,000 Republicans, that have come to throw their vote during the afternoon.
On the other hand, exactly the exact same from the present situation doesn’t seem feasible,” explained the officer.
The BMC on Friday had an internal assembly using its team on what has to be accomplished.
Ideally, before the election, then the BMC redraws each civil ward border.
Every one of those 227 wards had a mean of 54,000 Republicans throughout the 2017 election.
The SEC had requested the BMC to split the complete inhabitants of 12.
44 million (according to the 2011 census) together with the amount of wards, which is, 227.
“But today the delimitation will be performed based on the most recent population figures.
In the aftermath of Covid, nevertheless, it wasn’t feasible to conduct the census to the calendar year 2020-21,” said the officer, adding a meeting with an SEC is adjusted for Monday.
Ravi Raja, corporator and opposition party leader at the BMC, stated the civil body is going to need to be very careful.
“We watched what happened in countries including West Bengal lately where elections have been held and Covid instances went , and for that reason that the BMC will have to be cautious before it determines anything,” said Raja.
Before this BMC election 2017, on October 3, 2016the lottery for bookings was held to its 227 wards along with the delimitation of wards has been declared.
Even though 50% seats one of them are earmarked for women candidates, in the 50 percent also there’s parallel reservation from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and OBC class.

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