UP to release reservation list for gram panchayat elections soon

According to sources, the UP Election Commission could notify the dates of election for the posts of district panchayat presidents, panchayat members, gram pradhans, gram panchayat members and blockheads around March 25-26. The filing of nominations will begin in April.

It is being speculated that the panchayat elections could begin from April 10 and can be held in four stages.

There are 3,051 district panchayat member seats, 826 seats of blockheads, 75,855 area panchayat member seats, 58,194 village heads and 7,31,813 seats of gram panchayat members. As much as 51 per cent of these seats are unreserved. One per cent seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes, 21 per cent for Scheduled Castes, 27 per cent Other Backward Classes and one-third for women.

Meanwhile, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh connected 31,149-gram panchayats of the state with an optical fiber network under the National Broadband Mission on Monday.

According to an official spokesperson, the state government has set a target to connect 58,194-gram panchayats in 75 districts of the state with the optical fiber network by December 31, 2022. Over the next 60 days, 14,100-gram panchayats will be connected to the internet.