State government notifies on municipal election

Nagaland government has on Monday directed holding the General Election to constitute the Municipal Councils and Town Councils in the state.
According to DIPR report, the state government has revoked the withholding of draft publication of Electoral Roll (ER) in respect of Mokokchung Municipal Council. In this connection the State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nagaland has directed that a revision of the Electoral Roll for Mokokchung Municipal Council shall be taken up by way of Special Revision with January 1 as the qualifying date.
Schedule for draft Publication of ER will be on November 25, period for lodging claims & objection on November 26 December 5, period for disposal of claims and objections from December 6-12, period for filing appeal to the respective Appellate Authority from December 13-17, disposal of claims and objection by Appellate Authority on December 18, preparation of list of amendment after the decision of Appellate Authority on December 19, and final publication of ER on December 20, 2016.
For Special Revision of the Electoral Rolls of the existing 18 (Eighteen) Wards, SEC has directed that the ER of the Assembly Constituency for the time being in force as prepared by the Election Commission of India published on 11/01/2016 as relates to the ward shall be the ER of the Ward for the general election to the Town/Municipal Councils and shall be published as Draft Publication as indicated in the above schedule.
No Enumerator(s)/ Supervisor(s)/Sector Magistrate(s) etc., need to be appointed during the ensuing Special Revision of the ER for the existing 18 (eighteen) Wards and individual claimant/objector shall directly apply to the ERO for inclusion/deletion etc, the report stated adding necessary guideline for the revision has been issued for the EROs separately.