The election commission has announced the schedule for indirect election in district councils, fixing 28 December as the polling day.
Chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad announced the schedule on Sunday at the media centre of the commission secretariat.
As per the schedule, the deadlines for filing nomination papers for posts of chairman, reserved and general members is 1 December as the commission will scrutinise them on 3 and 4 December.
The last day to withdraw nominations is 11 December and the commission will allocate election symbols on 12 December.
Out of the country’s 64 districts, 61 will go to the polls as the three Chittagong Hill Tracts districts –Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban–will see no election.
All the public representatives of the local government bodies under a district concerned will elect the 21-member representative of a district council that would be comprised of a chairman, 15 general members and five women members from reserved seats.
All mayors, councillors and reserved councillors of city corporation (if any) and pourasavas, chairmen and vice chairmen of upazila parishads, chairmen, members and reserved members of the union parishads are voters in the elections.
There are 1,281 posts for election in the 61 district councils.
In December 2011, the government appointed administrators to 61 district councils across the country but not to the three CHT districts.