Citizens will have to wait till Nov 6 to ascertain whether they will be able to vote in civic polls, Dec 10 about their polling booth

“The polling booth-wise electoral roll has to be published by December 10 while the ward wise electoral roll has to be declared by November 28,” said Suresh Kakani, secretary of State Election Commission.

The electoral roll is prepared for each of the state Assembly constituencies by the Election Commission of India (ECI) through its process of revision undertaken frequently. The same electoral roll is used for civic polls based on the deadline set for it.

PMC additional municipal commissioner Omkar Divate said, “The State Election Commission has set a deadline of July 1 for considering the available electoral roll with EC for civic polls. This means it has already declared that those featuring in the electoral roll till July 1 this year will only be able to cast their vote for civic polls.”

The draft electoral roll for PMC elections will have to be published by November 6 so that the citizens can file their suggestion or objections on it till November 14. The officer concerned will take a decision on the public opinion and declare the ward-wise electoral roll by November 28. The citizens can file their application if there is a clerical mistake, name is shifted by mistakenly to another electoral ward and if the name features in the electoral roll of July 1 procured from ECI but not in electoral roll of wards.

The state government has decided to hold a multi-member ward election for civic polls with four members in each electoral ward. There will be 165 corporators to be elected from 41 wards in PMC with four each from 40 wards, and five from one ward for which the delimitation process was conducted recently.

The previous five-year term was from 2017 to 2022 and the BJP was in power. There has been no election after that as the political reservation was challenged in the Supreme Court and elections were on hold. However, the Supreme Court a few months ago directed the state government to go ahead with the civic polls.