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The Maharashtra Government has declared a paid vacation connected December 2, 2025, for employees of antithetic establishments, businesses and different workplaces to alteration them to ballot successful elections to municipal councils and nagar panchayats.
According to a Government Resolution (GR) issued connected Friday (November 28, 2025), employees successful the districts wherever voting volition instrumentality spot connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) are entitled to get paid permission to workout their franchise.
Elections to 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats (town councils), dispersed crossed Maharashtra, volition beryllium held successful the archetypal signifier of the long-pending municipality and agrarian section assemblage polls.
Industries, Energy and Labour Departments said the determination was taken to guarantee that each eligible citizens are capable to workout their franchise, noting that successful erstwhile elections immoderate establishments failed to supply paid permission oregon time-off, depriving galore radical of their voting right.
The GR besides cited provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which mandate paid permission for voters connected polling day.
The vacation directive volition use to each workers, employees and officers who are voters successful the polling areas, irrespective of whether their workplace is located wrong oregon extracurricular the constituency.
Establishments nether the Labour Department, including factories, shops, hotels, commercialized establishments, IT companies, malls and retail outlets, indispensable comply with the directive. Those providing indispensable oregon continuous services indispensable assistance 2 to 3 hours of peculiar permission if a full-day vacation was not feasible, the GR stated.
The authorities has warned that nonaccomplishment to assistance paid permission oregon capable time-off volition pull enactment if complaints are received.
The GR included a elaborate database of municipal councils and nagar panchayats crossed districts wherever polling volition instrumentality spot connected December 2, 2025.
The archetypal circular of polling volition beryllium followed by polls to 336 Panchayat Samitis, 32 Zilla Parishads and 29 municipal corporations, including Mumbai — the docket for which is yet to beryllium announced by the State Election Commission.
