An election official places an ink mark on a voter’s finger. File | Photograph Credit score: Ritu Raj Konwar
The Maharashtra Authorities has declared a paid vacation on December 2, 2025, for workers of various institutions, companies and different workplaces to allow them to vote in elections to municipal councils and nagar panchayats.
Based on a Authorities Decision (GR) issued on Friday (November 28, 2025), workers within the districts the place voting will happen on Tuesday (December 2, 2025) are entitled to receives a commission go away to train their franchise.
Elections to 246 municipal councils and 42 nagar panchayats (city councils), unfold throughout Maharashtra, might be held within the first part of the long-pending city and rural native physique polls.
Industries, Vitality and Labor Departments stated the choice was taken to make sure that all eligible residents are capable of train their franchise, noting that in earlier elections some institutions failed to offer paid go away or time-off, depriving many individuals of their voting proper.
The GR additionally cited provisions of the Illustration of the Folks Act, 1951, which mandate paid go away for voters on polling day.
The vacation directive will apply to all employees, workers and officers who’re voters within the polling areas, no matter whether or not their office is situated inside or outdoors the constituency.
Institutions below the Labor Division, together with factories, retailers, lodges, industrial institutions, IT corporations, malls and shops, should adjust to the directive. These offering important or steady providers should grant two to a few hours of particular go away if a full-day vacation was not possible, the GR said.
The federal government has warned that failure to grant paid go away or ample time-off will entice motion if complaints are acquired.
The GR included an in depth listing of municipal councils and nagar panchayats throughout districts the place polling will happen on December 2, 2025.
The primary spherical of polling might be adopted by polls to 336 Panchayat Samitis, 32 Zilla Parishads and 29 municipal firms, together with Mumbai — the schedule for which is but to be introduced by the State Election Fee.
Revealed – November 28, 2025 06:03 pm IST