JK Polls: CEO reviews Election preparedness in Kishtwar district
KISHTWAR, SEP 6: With an aim to ensure the free, fair, transparent and smooth conduct of Assembly Elections in the district, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Pandurang K Pole today visited Kishtwar, where he chaired a meeting with Nodal officers at Mini Secretariat to review overall Election preparedness for 48-Inderwal, 49-Kishtwar and 50-Paddar-Nagseni Assembly Constituencies of the district.
District Election Officer (DEO) Kishtwar Rajesh Kumar Shavan; Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kishtwar Abdul Qayoom; Additional Secretary Sandish Gupta; Returning Officers of all Assembly Constituencies; Deputy District Election Officer, Idrees Lone and the Nodal Officers monitoring/ overseeing election related activities also attended the meeting.
During the meeting, detailed discussions were held on key aspects of election management, including manpower deployment, EVM randomization and transportation, polling staff arrangements, strong rooms, security protocols, functioning of Control Room and other arrangements for smooth conduct of elections.
The DEO through PPT presentation provided an overview of District Election Profile including electorate count, number of polling stations and polling locations, model polling stations, home voting facilities, SVEEP activities and the district’s election management.
Addressing the officers in the meeting, the CEO said that the aim of the visit is to see that there is no deficiency of any kind and to redress deficits at an earliest to make the electoral process successful.
He emphasized on the continuation of SVEEP initiatives to educate and engage voters effectively and urged all stakeholders to maximize voter turnout through door- to-door campaigns by roping in the BAGs, BLOs, AWWs, Teachers, Youths and Students of Colleges and Schools under SVEEP initiative.
The CEO instructed for widespread publicity of all SVEEP programs and prepare engaging social media contents by Youth Icons and other media influencers of society to ensure maximum voter awareness.
He also stressed for distribution of voter slips among the voters by using the services of BLOs, so that everyone is able to cast his/her vote on the poll day.
