AMARAVATI: The election schedule for the pending local body elections in Andhra Pradesh including 12 municipalities, including Nellore Corporation, panchayats, MPTCs and ZPTC posts was announced by State Election Commission, on Monday.

-Polling for the panchayats will be held on the 14th of November and counting will take place on the same day.

-Polling for municipalities and corporations will be held on the 15th of this month and counting on the 17th.

-Polling for MPTC and ZPTC elections will be held on the 16th of this month and counting on the 18th.

-The nomination process for all local bodies will take place from November 3 to November 5 this month.

-The Model Code of Conduct will come into force from today in the areas where the elections will be held.

Election schedule for 12 municipalities in AP‌
Elections to be held for Nellore Corporation
Municipal elections on November 15 and results on November 17
Election to be held for the remaining divisions in the corporations
Elections to be held for 12 divisions in 7 corporations
Election to the remaining 13 wards in 12 municipalities

Election to 69 Sarpanches in 498 Gram Panchayats
Election for the remaining 533 ward members
Election in Gram Panchayats on 14th of this month, counting on the same day‌

Election to the remaining 187 MPTCs in 13 districts
Election to the remaining 16 ZPTCs in 13 districts
Elections for MPTC and ZPTC will be held on the 16th and 18th of this month

Nominations for all local body elections will be held from November 3rd to 5th of this month

Election on 14th in Panchayats, 15th on Municipalities, and 16th in ZPTC and MPTCs.

It may be recollected that in March last year, notification was issued for the conduct of municipal elections across the state. However, elections were held only for 75 municipalities and 12 municipal corporations. Elections for 32 municipalities and 4 municipal corporations were stalled due to various reasons.

Among them are Akividu (West Godavari), Jaggayyapeta, Kondapalli (Krishna), Dachepalli, Gurjala (Guntur), Darshi (Prakasam), Buchireddypalem (Nellore), Kuppam (Chittoor), Bethancharla (Kurnool), Kamalapuram (YSR Kadapa) and Penukonda (Anantapur).

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