Ahead of Haryana Assembly elections, ECI team reviews poll preparedness in 11 districts

In August, the Commission led by Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner, reviewed the administrative, logistics, instrumentality and order, and election-related arrangements with the main electoral serviceman and authorities constabulary nodal officer.

During Monday’s meeting, Hridesh Kumar reviewed the marking of electoral rolls, the clip program for preparing Absentee, Shifted, Duplicate oregon Dead (ASD) lists, organisation of elector slips and Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC), and addressing large complaints to electoral rolls. He said the printing of pending EPIC cards should beryllium pursued with the printer and should beryllium distributed by September 30. The booth level officers (BLOs) tin beryllium engaged to guarantee compliance with this task, and the marked transcript of elector lists should beryllium prepared arsenic per the instructions, helium added.

Officials from the Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal, Gurugram, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Jhajjar, Rohtak, and Sonipat districts attended the meeting.

The territory commissioners-cum-DEOs and SPs were asked to inspect polling stations to verify the availability of indispensable facilities. The Commission emphasised that the Voter Facilitation Booths should beryllium acceptable up by BLOs astatine each polling station. It besides said due seating arrangements should beryllium made to facilitate voters lasting successful queues.

The squad cited the request for webcasting from each polling stations. To guarantee amended monitoring, cameras of precocious solution should beryllium utilized and they should beryllium positioned successful a mode that they screen the polling stations for effectual surveillance. DEOs briefed the Election Commission regarding the setup of peculiar exemplary polling booths. These see ‘Pink Booths’ staffed wholly by women employees, younker employees managed booths, and booths overseen by persons with disabilities (PwD) employees.

Kumar besides ordered contiguous enactment for amended surveillance of the borderline areas successful coordination with the constabulary of the neighbouring states. He instructed officials to found reflector checkpoints successful interstate districts on the borders with neighbouring states, per the constabulary manual.

The squad asked the officials to show the moving of antithetic Flying Squad Surveillance Teams and Static Surveillance Teams.

Chief Electoral Officer Pankaj Agarwal said provisions volition beryllium made for PwD voters and those implicit 85 years astatine their homes nether the supervision of the RO, with videography of the process. He added that grooming for predetermination officials indispensable beryllium ensured, and different requirements specified arsenic proscription facilities for PwD voters and voters implicit 85 years of property should beryllium provided wherever necessary.

Haryana Assembly elections volition beryllium held connected October 5 and votes volition beryllium counted connected October 8.