{"id":303778,"date":"2017-08-17T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2916-panchayat-election-schedule-fixed-for-october-7"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:30:00","slug":"panchayat-election-schedule-fixed-for-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/08\/17\/panchayat-election-schedule-fixed-for-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Panchayat election schedule fixed for October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>By A Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Aug 17<\/p>\n<p>The state election commission has today announced that the 5th general panchayat election 2017 of the valley districts will be held on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made by state election commissioner, Th. Kamini Kumar Singh, at the election office within the office complex of deputy commissioner (DC), Imphal West.<\/p>\n<p>While the public notification of the election is to be issued on August 18, the election code of conduct will come into effect with the announcement of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The election commissioner divulged that the term for the 4th panchayat body will expire on October 23.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether 7,16,830 voters including 3,48,139 male and 3,68,691 female voters will exercise their franchise to elect 60 zilla parishad, 161 pradhans and 1,513 ward members. Voting will begin from 8 am and conclude at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Kamini Kumar Singh, informed that election will be held at 1,521 polling stations for which a total of 9,126 polling personnel are required including 912 in reserved.<\/p>\n<p>The last date for filing of nomination papers has been scheduled on August 26 followed by scrutiny on August 26 and withdrawal of nomination papers on August 29.<\/p>\n<p>While the counting has been fixed on October 11, the entire process of election is to be completed by October 16.<\/p>\n<p>The 6 deputy commissioners (DCs) of the respective districts will be the district election officers, 14 returning officers and general observers will look into the smooth functioning of the election process.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure free and fair conduct of the election, the commission has asked the concerned DCs to appoint a nodal officer from the police department and for this a joint meeting of the DCs, SPs and the state election commission officials will be arrange shortly, said the state election commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot papers will be used as per the regulation of the Election Commission as the commission was unable to arrange electronic voting machines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2916-panchayat-election-schedule-fixed-for-october-7\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/2916-panchayat-election-schedule-fixed-for-october-7<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By A Staff Reporter<br \/>\nIMPHAL | Aug 17<br \/>\nThe state election commission has today announced that the 5th general panchayat election 2017 of the valley districts will be held on October 7.<br \/>\nThe announcement was made by state election commissioner, Th. Kamin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-303778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303779,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303778\/revisions\/303779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}