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Administrators to take charge of panchayats from today

The five-year tenure of the 186 pachayat bodies elected in 2012 came to end on Saturday.

PANAJI:   
The process of withdrawal of nominations will be undertaken on Monday.   A total of 7,647 nominations have been received by the State Election Commission for the upcoming panchayat polls. Of these, 3,940 nominations were field from five talukas of North Goa and 3,707 were filed from the seven talukas of South Goa.   
The scrutiny of the nominations was held on Friday and Saturday.  
 Meanwhile, the state government has issued an order appointing the outgoing sarpanchas as the administrators for 186 panchayats from May 28 till the new panchayat bodies take charge. The administrators will take charge on Sunday.   
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Bastora candidate’s nomination declined on technical grounds

At the end of the final day of scrutiny, none of the nomination forms were rejected in Bardez, even as Returning Officer III did not accept the nomination of Dnyneswar Damodar Morajkar, who was granted relief by High Court, on technical grounds.

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Published May 28, 2017, 4:43 AM IST
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MAPUSA  The focus now shifts on withdrawal of forms on May 29, after which the final position on number of candidates in the fray will be finalized. Bardez has 33 village panchayats in all.  There were two objections raised before Returning Officer I, Dashrath Gawas, which was disposed of after hearing.   All nominations before Returning Officer II, Sandeep Gaude and Returning Officer III, Ranjeet Salgaonkar were cleared without any objections. RO…

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