The State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Sunday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh to the family of a government employee who was killed on election duty in Nabarangpur district.
Alekh Randhari, a Class-IV employee of a government school, was killed in a road accident near the Swami Vivekananda Vidyamandir in Nabarangpur on Saturday while he was on the way to a polling station for the first phase of the elections on Monday.
In another incident, a bus carrying polling personnel and EVMs overturned near Pitatali in Ganjam district on Saturday. The bus was transporting polling personnel along with EVM machines to Kharriaguda in the Chikiti Assembly segment in the district.
Brahmapur SP Sarthak Sarangi said that all the polling personnel and the EVMs were safe. The polling personnel were sent to their allotted booths by another vehicle.
