Collector and District Election Officer Dr. S.S. Bharatidasan on Thursday reserved the wards of Municipal Corporation Birgaon for general election-2121. He made this reservation under the Chhattisgarh Municipality (Reservation of Wards for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes and Women) Rules, 1994 in a rotation. Class wise reservation in 40 wards took place in the Shaheed Smarak Bhavan. The number of reserved wards was determined according to the 2011 census.
According to this, 5 wards for the Scheduled Castes category are Dr. Radhakrishnan Ward (Ward 22), Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Ward (Ward 26), Chhatrapati Shivaji Ward (Ward 15), Hari Thakur Ward (Ward 8), Dr. Rajendra Prasad Ward (Ward 2) was reserved. 2 wards, Jai Budhadev ward (ward 27) and Maa Banjari Mata ward (ward 10) are reserved for the scheduled tribe category. Similarly, Danveer Bhamashah Ward (Ward 03), Swami Vivekananda Ward (Ward 04) Maa Parameshwari Ward (Ward 25), Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla Ward (Ward 13), Kailash Nagar Ward (Ward 21), Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Ward (Ward) 29), Bharatmata Ward (Ward 30), Indira Gandhi Ward (Ward 34), Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Ward (Ward 39) and Dr. Rabindranath Tagore Ward (Ward 40) for OBC and 23 wards unreserved.
