Hyderabad, Jan. 10 -- After successfully conducting gram panchayat elections across Telangana in three phases in December, the state election commission (SEC) is now gearing up to conduct elections to municipalities and municipal corporations across the state, people familiar with the development said on Friday.

According to a senior SEC official privy to the matter, the elections to the urban local bodies were likely to be held in the third week of February and the schedule for the elections was expected in the first week.

In all, 117 municipalities with 2630 wards; and six municipal corporations - Kothagudem, Karimnagar, Mahabubnagar, Mancherial, Nizamabad and Ramagundam - comprising 366 wards in total, will go to polls.

The SEC has ...