Part I-A Extra Urban Development & Urban Housing Department

Extra No. 167 © The Gujarat Government Gazette EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY Vol. LXVI ] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 / KARTIKA 15, 1947 Separate paging is given to this part in order that it may be filed as a Separate Compilation.

PART I-A CENTRAL SECTION Orders and Notifications (Other than those published in Part IV-B) under the Gujarat Local Boards, Village Panchayats, Municipal Boroughs, District Municipal, Primary Education and Local Fund Audit Acts.

URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN HOUSING DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION Sachivalaya, Gandhinagar, 6th November, 2025 GUJARAT PROVINCIAL MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1949.

No. KV-384 of 2025/UDUHD/MSM/e-file/18/2025/0418/P Section: - WHEAREAS the Government of Gujarat has, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (a) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of section 5 of the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 (Bom. LIX of 1949) (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act") vide Government

Notification, Urban Development and Urban Housing Department No. KV-236 of 2025/UDUHD/MSM/e-file/ 18/2025/0418/P Section, dated the 9th July, 2025 determined the number of wards and seats (including the seats reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes and Women) for the Gandhidham Municipal Corporation of the City of Gandhidham;

AND WHEAREAS the Government of Gujarat has, in exercise of powers conferred by clause (2) of article 243Q of the Constitution of India vide Government Notification, Urban Development and Urban Housing Department No GV-351 of 2025/UDUHD/MSM/e-file/18/2025/5509/P Section, dated the 25th September, 2025 included certain areas within the limits of Gandhidham Municipal Corporation of the City of Gandhidham;

AND WHEREAS the number of Wards and Seats of Councillors and number of seats to be reserved for Scheduled Castes, Schedule Tribes, Backward Classes and Women are required to be ascertained in accordance with the figure of the population as declared on the basis of census-2011 as also in view of the provision of sections 5 of the said Act;

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AND WHEREAS the General Election of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Gandhidham is to be held:

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (a) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of section 5 read with sub-sections (4), (5), (6) and (7) of section 5 of the said Act and in supersession of the Government

Notification, Urban Development and Urban Housing Department No. KV-236 of 2025/UDUHD/MSM/e-file/ 18/2025/0418/P Section, dated the 9th July 2025, so far as the City of Gandhidham is concerned, the Government of

Gujarat hereby determines the number of Wards and Seats as follows:-

1) The areas of the City of Gandhidham shall be divided into Thirteen (13) Wards and the Municipal Corporation of the City of Gandhidham shall consist of Fifty-Two (52) Councillors;

2) Out of the Fifty-Two (52) Seats, -

(i) Ten (10) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes out of which Five (5) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes;

(ii) One (1) Seat shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Scheduled Tribes;

(iii) Fourteen (14) Seats shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the Backward Classes out of which Seven

(7) Seats shall be reserved for women belonging to the Backward Classes;

(iv) Twenty-Six (26) Seats shall be reserved for the women (including the number of seats reserved for the women belonging to Scheduled Castes and the Backward Classes referred to as above).

Provided that the supersession of the Government Notification, Urban Development and Urban Housing Department No. KV-236 of 2025 UDUHD/MSM/e-file/18/2025/0418/P Section, dated the 9th July, 2025, shall not affect anything done or any action taken thereunder and any proceedings under the said

notification pending at the commencement of this notification shall be continued until it is disposed off.

By order and in the name of the Governor of Gujarat, KOMAL BHATT, Joint Secretary to Government. ---------- Government Central Press, Gandhinagar.