SRINAGAR, Jan 1: Indian authorities announced on Saturday that municipal elections, the first in 25 years, will be held next month in insurgency-hit Kashmir.

The polls to municipal corporations, councils and committees will take place in several phases, with Srinagar and Jammu voting on February 1, the chief electoral office said.

Voting in the violence-racked southern districts of Poonch and Rajouri will be held on Feb 17, the last phase of balloting.-AFP