Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)
Bengaluru, May 4: To enable voters to exercise their franchise on polling day, the state government has declared May 12 as a general holiday.
Holiday has been declared to all the state and central government offices, schools and colleges in the state. An order to this affect was issued on Thursday May 3.
This holiday will not apply to emergency services and government employees on poll duty.
Wherever polling booths have been set up in government offices and schools, the electoral officers concerned have been empowered to declare holiday on May 11 for making preparations, and also on May 15 depending on the necessity, at centres where votes will be counted.