Ranchi, February 22 Voting is taking place for 48 urban local bodies (ULBs) across Jharkhand on Monday, with over 43 lakh voters eligible to decide the fate of over 6,000 candidates, an election official said.
Polling began at 7 am and will continue until 5 pm, he said.
Over 43.43 lakh voters, including 21.31 lakh women, are eligible to cast their votes in the elections.
"The elections are underway for the posts of mayors and chairpersons in 48 ULBs, and councillors in 1,042 wards across nine municipal corporations, 20 nagar parishads, and 19 nagar panchayats," State Election Commission (SEC) secretary Radhe Shyam Prasad said.
As many as 562 candidates, including 235 women, are contesting for the posts of mayor and chairperson, while 5,562 candidates, including 2,727 women, are contesting for the posts of ward councillors.
Prasad said that adequate security arrangements have been made at all the polling booths.
A total of 4,307 polling booths have been set up for the elections. Of these, 896 have been identified as hyper-sensitive and 2,445 as sensitive.
