Home Secretary Basudeb Banerjee, who is also secretary to the Hill Affairs Department, issued the notification for the election of members to the new body of GTA, which will replace the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.
It said that there would be 45 single-member constituencies and the extent of which has already been delimited and published.
The last date for filing of nominations is July 9, date of scrutiny would be the next day and last date for withdrawal is on July 12. Counting would be taken up on August 2, it said.
Hours of polling would be between 7:00 am and 4:00 pm.
The notification also said that EVMs would be used for election in 685 polling stations under GTA.
Armed police and general observers would be deployed based on the assessment of ground situation and model code of conduct would be applicable from the date of notification.
The election date has been announced at a time when a 5-member Gorkha Janmukti Morcha delegation, headed by its president Bimal Gurung, would meet Union Home minister P Chidambaram in Delhi on Tuesday over the recommendations of Justice (retd) Shyamal Sen Committee.
The GJM has expressed disappointment that the committee has recommended only five Gorkha dominated mouzas, an area less than a subdivision, in the Terai and Doars in the plains of Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling district against its demand for 396.
The tripartite accord with the GJM, Centre and the state government was signed in July 18 last year in the presence of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and GJM chief Bimal Gurung at Pintail village, near Siliguri.
Among its salients points were that the central and state governments and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, keeping on record the GJM demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland, agreed to form an autonomous body -- the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration -- through direct elections.
The autonomous self-governing body would administer the region so that the socio-economic infrastructural, educational, cultural and linguistic development was expedited and the ethnic ideas of the Gorkhas established.
The GTA Bill was passed in the state assembly on September 2 last year.
