City corporation elections to Rajshahi, Sylhet and Barisal will be held on July 30, the Election Commission announced in the election schedule today.

According to the election schedule announced, the last date for filing nomination is June 28 and withdrawing July 9. The nominations will be scrutinised through July 1 and 2.

The decision was drawn at a meeting of the Election Commission, headed by Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, the EC's Acting Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed told reporters.

He also spoke of experimental implementation of Electronic Voting Method (EVM) at some voting stations during the three city corporation elections.