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KATHMANDU, APRIL 28The Election Commission has printed 17,775,000 ballot papers for 72 districts and it has already dispatched 5,180,000 ballot papers to 33 districts.

Local polls are scheduled for May 13. New service centres for women, children, and elderly on the cards EC ready with ballot papers for 53 districts Assistant Spokesperson for the EC Surya Prasad Aryal said at a press briefing here today that the polls panel had asked the government to announce public holiday on May 13 when local polls will take place. The polls panel has also asked schools where polling centres had been set up to stop classes for three days - May 11-13 and to conduct study through alternative means.Aryal said that as per the data available by 3:30pm today, 153,002 candidates have applied for various posts in the local governments.A total of 3,510 people filed their nomination papers for the post of mayor and 3,387 for the post of chairpersons of local levels.The number of people who filed their nomination papers for deputy mayor and deputy chief is 2,168 and 2,401respectively.A total of 35,353 people have filed their nomination papers for the post of ward chair.A version of this article appears in the print on April 29, 2022, of The Himalayan Times. .

This article first appeared/also appeared in https://thehimalayantimes.com 




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