Srinagar,
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By-elections to all vacant posts of Panch and Sarpanch in J&K will be held as soon as the coronavirus situation improves, Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam has said.
About 12,600 posts of Panch and Sarpanchs, of nearly 40,000, are currently vacant. The vacant posts are mostly in Kashmir. “We will hold bypolls to the vacant gram Panchayat posts once COVID19 goes off. In fact, we had plans to hold the bypolls by February-March. But coronavirus delayed the whole process,” he said.
