Administrators of local bodies appointed
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, December 29 2022:
With Municipal Administration, Housing & Urban Development (MAHUD) issuing orders on Tuesday for appointing administrators of the Imphal Municipal Corporation (IMC) and 27 urban local bodies (ULBs) to run and take charge of the local bodies, the election to the ULBs, is unlikely to happen very soon in the state.
It may be mentioned that the government of Manipur in response to PIL informed the Manipur High Court that the cabinet has resolved to conduct the election to the IMC and urban local bodies by November 2022 and only a notification in the regard was left to initiated the process, subsequent to which the High Court in its judgment on August 12, 2022 closed the PIL.
Even though the timeline given by the government of Manipur in the High Court for conducting the polls had lapsed, the election has not been conducted and instead the MAHUD department issued an order appointing administrators of IMC and 27 ULBs to take charge and run the local bodies until the election is held.
According to the order issued by MAHUD, the director will be the administrator of IMC while administrators of the districts concerned will oversee the respective ULB till conduct of the elections.