Mumbai : The State Election Commission has directed all the district collectorates to form separate election cells in the wake of the elections of 10 municipal corporations, 195 municipal councils, 26 zilla parishads and 297 panchayat samities between December 2016 and March 2017.
Major municipal corporations — such as the ones in Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, Nagpur, Amrawati, Akola and Solapur — would go for elections in 2016 and 2017. State election commissioner J S Saharia has directed all the district collectors to form separate election cells to ensure free and fair elections.
A meeting of senior officials from major municipal corporations, too, was conducted at the SEC’s office here on Friday. Saharia also said that the entire process of the elections would be computerised.
