22 lakh electorate in the district to exercise franchise in ZP

Pune, Feb 27 (UNI) The Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections will be held on March 11 and nearly 22 lakh electorate in the district will exercise their franchise, to elect 75 members of the Zilla Parishad (ZP) and 150 members of the Panchayat Samiti.

District Collector Prabhakar Deshmukh told mediapersons that 10,462 election officials will be engaged for election duty. The group of officials will monitor candidates to ensure that there is no violation of the model code of conduct.

Around 18 polling centre have been identified as 'very sensitive' and 133 as 'sensitive', he said. Around 1,400 candidate have filed their nomination papers and the last date of withdrawal is March three, the highest number of voters are in Haveli Taluka while in Vella taluka the figures are comparatively less, he said without giving any further details.

The District administration has taken the help and support of police for the smooth conduct of election, the Collector added.

UNI