Uttar Pradesh village panchayat term expires

The Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj department has appointed administrators in all the 58,656 village Panchayats in the state after expiry of the five-year term of the village pradhans. The Assistant Development Officers (ADO) have been made the administrators in all the Panchayats while the government has removed the digital signatures of the village pradhans from the portal of the e-gram swaraj to prevent any fraud. The elections could not be held prior to the expiry of the Panchayat term due to the pandemic. Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission is now preparing for the Panchayat polls and there is a possibility that the election could be held in four phases early next year. The elections of the Gram Pradhans, member Gram Sabha, and member Kshetra Panchayat and member district Panchayat will be held simultaneously. (IANS)

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