To review the action taken on the directions of the Election Commission of India issued to the authorities involved in the election process during its visit to Haryana on August 12-13, a team of senior officers from the ECI held a meeting on Monday with Divisional Commissioners, IG Police range, Deputy Commisioners-cum-DEOs, Police Commissioners and SPs, MC Commissioner, General Observers, Police Observers and Expenditure Observers from 11 districts regarding preparedness.
The team included Deputy Election Commissioner Hridesh Kumar, Secretary KP Singh, Principal Secretary Avinash Kumar and SB Joshi. The meeting was held in the presence of Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer Pankaj Agarwal and State Police Nodal Officer Saurabh Singh.
The Commission led by Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner had then taken a review of the administrative, logistics, law and order, and election-related arrangements with the Chief Electoral Officer and State Police Nodal Officer. The commission had directed to ensure conduct of free and fair elections by maintaining good law and order situation. It had stressed to maintain good health of the electoral roll with the removal of dead and shifted voters. Further, it directed to provide minimum assured facility at the pooling booths along with a conducive environment to encourage voter turnout. DEOs were directed to be equally accessible to all the political parties and to resolve promptly the grievances related to various election-related activities.
In Monday's meeting, Hirdesh Kumar, DEC, reviewed the marking of electoral rolls, time plan for preparing ASD (Absentee, shifted, Duplicate or Dead) lists, distribution of voter slips, Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) distribution and addressing any major complaint related to electoral rolls. He stated that the printing of pending EPIC cards should be pursued with the printer and the EPIC cards should be distributed by 30th Sep.
The police authorities briefed about the security arrangements for ensuring a good law and order situation. The team expressed its satisfaction over the deployment of the central forces and other security arrangements. However, it stressed immediate action for better surveillance of the border areas in coordination with police of the neighbouring states.
The team noticed that the seizures done so far are not satisfactory and emphasized to rework the strategy, monitoring the working of different Flying Squad Surveillance Teams and Static Surveillance Teams. Faridabad, Sonipat and Gurugram districts were directed to make special efforts regarding this. The police officers assured that effective steps would be taken to increase surveillance and enhance seizures.
ECI Reviews Poll Preparedness for Haryana Legislative Assembly Elections
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 | PNS
| Chandigarh
ECI Reviews Poll Preparedness for Haryana Legislative Assembly Elections
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 | PNS | Chandigarh
