The State Election Commission (SEC) will use new electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the upcoming civic and local body elections in Maharashtra. It has asked the Urban Development Department (UDD) and Rural Development Department (RDD) to allocate Rs100 crore each for the polls. The UDD oversees municipal corporations, while the RDD controls local bodies such as zilla parishads, panchayat samitis, and village panchayats.

The UDD, in its directives given on Wednesday, has asked the directorate of municipal administration (DMA) to release Rs50 crore air-marked as the subsidiary grants for the municipal bodies to undertake local development works. Earlier, the UDD allocated Rs50 crore to the SEC from the funds collected as cess on property registrations and stamp duty payments. A part of th

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