Odisha to conduct polls for 24 new civic bodies in June end

Months up of the scheduled agrarian and municipality section assemblage elections successful Odisha, the State Election Commission is acceptable to behaviour polls connected a smaller scale. In accordance with ineligible provisions, elections to 24 recently constituted municipality section bodies are apt to beryllium held successful June.

State Election Commissioner Madhusudan Padhi connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) said it was mandatory to implicit the electoral process wrong six months of the declaration of immoderate municipal area. Accordingly, elections to the 24 recently formed municipality bodies would beryllium conducted immediately, helium said.

It is to beryllium noted that the Mohan Majhi Government had issued notifications connected December 31, 2025, declaring 24 caller Notified Area Councils (NACs) and municipalities. The full-scale agrarian and municipality polls volition beryllium held successful 2027 with tenure of existing bodies coming to end.

Mr. Padhi, portion conducting a reappraisal gathering successful Ganjam district, said that aft declaration of caller municipality bodies, the delimitation and preservation of civic bodies should beryllium completed wrong 30 days and subsequently the State Election Commission would statesman the electoral process. The State authorities has been informed astir obligatory predetermination successful recently formed municipality civic bodies.