New Delhi: The final electoral roll of Bihar is set to be published on Tuesday, with the Election Commission likely to follow it up with the announcement of the poll schedule of the key state next week.

The poll authority is visiting Patna on October 4 and 5 to take stock of the poll preparedness.

The schedule for the assembly elections is likely to be announced next week, sources said.

The first phase of the elections is likely to be held soon after the Chhath festival in late October.

Four hundred seventy observers are being deployed by the EC for Bihar and some assembly bypolls.

A briefing of general, police and expenditure observers is also set to take place here on October 3.

The term of the 243-member Bihar Assembly ends on November 22.

The last assembly elections in Bihar wer

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