Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh authorities on Thursday issued a provisional record of reserved seats for mayors of municipal companies, and chairpersons of municipal councils and nagar panchayats for the three-tier city elections. “The draft notification has been issued for the reserved seats. Objections have been sought on the list of reserved seats within seven days,” Urban Development Minister AK Sharma advised reporters right here.
The record has been issued for reserved seats for mayors of 17 municipal companies, and chairpersons of municipal councils and nagar panchayats. The authorities has sought objections to the draft inside seven days, until April 6.
The state cupboard had on Wednesday authorized an ordinance for the modification of the Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act and the Nagar Palika Act, and it was despatched to Governor Anandiben Patel for her assent.
The mayor seat of Agra has been reserved for SC (lady), Jhansi for SC, Shahjahanpur and Firozabad OBC (ladies), Saharanpur and Meerut for OBC, and Lucknow, Kanpur and Ghaziabad for girls, in keeping with the draft notification.
Eight mayoral seats of Varanasi, Prayagraj, Aligarh, Bareilly, Moradabad, Gorakhpur, Ayodhya and Mathura-Vrindavan will probably be unreserved, the minister stated.
Earlier, Supreme Court on Monday paved the way in which for holding the city native physique polls in Uttar Pradesh because it allowed the State Election Commission to difficulty a notification on this regard in two days with an OBC quota when it comes to a report of the Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission.
