Article 243 K and 243 ZA provide for a State Election Commission to survervise, direct and control elections to local governments.

The following lacunae exist in elections to local governments:

1. For each stage separate law needs to be enacted to implement these reforms.
2. Electoral rolls have to be prepared separately for local governments.
3. Political parties registration and symbols allotment may have to be separately taken up by the State Election Commission in each State.

All these are redundant. A simple constitutional amendment providing for common electoral rolls, common Union electoral law for all the elections and common registration of parties and allotment of symbols would be necessary to improve local government elections.