Vijayawada: The State Election Commission on Monday rescheduled the conduct of gram panchayat polls in revised phases. The poll for February 4, originally phase one, will be held on February 21 as the last phase, Phase IV, while dates for the remaining three phases remain unchanged.
Phases-II, III and IV scheduled to be held on February 9, 13 and 17 respectively will be held as usual except for altering the numbers of these phases as I, II and III respectively. The polling time is fixed from 6.30 am to 3.30 pm.
The district administrations had failed to make necessary arrangements for nominations for polls scheduled on February 5 under the original phase-I. Following this, the SEC has rescheduled the polling for the first phase for the last part.
When the SEC convened a video conference with collectors, SPs and other district officials on January 23, and a communication was sent to Chief Secretary, DGP, principal secretary and commissioner, panchayat raj and principal…