timergara - All arrangements have been finalised for holding the local government elections 2022 in Lower Dir district, said officials.
District Election Commissioner Iqbal Tanoli told this scribe at Balambat that all is set to conduct local government elections for tehsils, village and neighbourhood councils on March 31, 2022.
A total of 26 returning officers (ROs) including 7 for tehsils and 19 for VCs and NCs were notified by the election commission. He said that public notices were issued by ROs inviting nomination papers from all candidates.
Tanoli said that candidates may submit their nomination papers with ROs from February 14 to February 18 while scrutiny of nomination papers would be conducted from February 21 to February 23.
Allotment of symbols to the contesting candidates and publication of final list for candidates would be issued on March 04, whereas polls would be held on March 31, 2022, he added.
The election commission official said that a total of 560 polling stations and 1590 polling booths had been set up all over the district.
“To ensure implementation of election’s code of conduct a total of 7 monitoring teams including 2 monitoring officers (MOs) in each team were notified by the election commission and Ddeputy Commissioner was notified as the District Monitoring Officer (DMO) who will oversee election process in the district,” maintained Tanoli.