-STATE ELECTION COMMISSION ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
-CODE OF CONDUCT COMES INTO FORCE IMMIDIATELY<\/p>\n
-LAST DATE OF FILING NOMINATIONS IS September 7<\/span><\/p>\n Chandigarh,<\/p>\n The State Election Commissioner, Punjab, Mr. Jagpal Singh Sandhu here today announced the schedule for the elections of 22 Zila parishad and 150 Panchayat samitis . With the announcement of the schedule, the ‘Model Code of Conduct’ has come into force immediately in the State. The Code of Conduct would be in force till the completion of the electoral process.Elaborating more during the press conference, Mr. Jagpal Singh Sandhu said that the process for filing the nominations would commence on\u00a0 4th September, 2018 and 7th September 2018,would\u00a0 \u00a0be the last date for filing the nominations. The nominations would be scrutinized on 10th September 2018<\/span> while the date for withdrawal of the nominations would be 11th September 2018<\/span> whichwould also be\u00a0 the date for allotting the election symbols to the candidates. The voting would be held on 19th September 2018<\/span> from 8 AM till 4 PM.<\/span> Counting of votes would be held on 22 September 2018<\/span>. A total of 35 observers are being appointed to\u00a0 ensure\u00a0 peaceful conduct of the polls.\u00a0He said that 354 members\u00a0 would be elected for 22 Zila Parishads and 2900 Members would be elected for 150\u00a0 Panchayat samitis in the state. Government of Punjab has given 50% reservation for women in\u00a0 Zila Parishads and Panchayat samitis.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Sandhu also said that the voter lists of the Zila Parishad\u00a0 and block Samitis had been updated with qualifing date of 01.01.2018.\u00a0 He appealed to all the voters to participate in the voting process with full zeal. There are\u00a0 6688245 male, 6099053 female and 97 third gender voters totalling 12787395 registered voters in state for these elections. Commission has established 17268 polling booth and 86340\u00a0 personnel will be put on election duty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The State Election Commissioner further said that the expenditure limit for a candidate contesting for Zila Parishad has been fixed at Rs.1.90 lakhs where as the limit for those contesting Block Samitis\u00a0 coming has been fixed at Rs.80000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" -STATE ELECTION COMMISSION ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE -CODE OF CONDUCT COMES INTO FORCE IMMIDIATELY -LAST DATE OF FILING NOMINATIONS IS September 7 Chandigarh, The State Election Commissioner, Punjab, Mr. Jagpal Singh Sandhu here today announced the schedule for the elections of 22 Zila parishad and 150 Panchayat samitis . With the announcement of the schedule, the ‘Model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40575,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions\/40575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}