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The dates are in. The model code of conduct in already in effect. And the city will go to vote for the civic elections on February 21. State election commissioner JS Saharia made an announcement to this effect on Wednesday afternoon. He also declared a schedule for nine other municipal corporations, including Thane, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Ulhasnagar and Nagpur, along with 25 zill parishads and 283 panchayat samitis. These elections are generally looked as mini Assembly polls because they cover 80 per cent of the state’s total voters.