Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday announced special holidays for its employees in their respective constituencies during the four-phased simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls scheduled from May 13.
The special holidays were announced for the government employees to enable them to exercise their franchise.
The Revenue and Disaster Management department issued a notification in this regard. “The government of Odisha has been pleased to declare holiday for the employees of the state government offices and magisterial courts (executive) on May 13 (Monday), May 20 (Monday), May 25 (Saturday) and June1 (Saturday) for the offices located within the parliamentary constituencies and assembly segments,” the notification stated.
As per schedule, 28 assembly segments and four Lok Sabha constituencies (Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur and Koraput) will go to poll on May 13 in the first phase.
Similarly, Bargarh, Sundergarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal and Aska MP constituencies along with 35 assembly seats coming under these segments will vote on May 20.
Six parliamentary constituencies — Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Puri, and Bhubaneswar – will go to polls in the third phase on May 25. On the same day, polling will also be held for 42 assembly constituencies coming under these LS seats.
In the final phase, the remaining six constituencies — Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur – and the Assembly constituencies coming under these segments will vote on June 1.
