In the wake of upcoming Lok Sabha elections, training phase of officers and employees has started in Bhopal. On Tuesday, training of MCMC committee was organized, while Collector Kaushalendra Vikram Singh took a meeting of all the nodal officers. Sector officers will be given election training on Wednesday.

A total of 2363 polling booths have been made for Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. Accordingly, more than 500 more employees will be deployed for voting and counting. They will be told every detail of the elections. Therefore the training schedule has been decided.

First of all there will be training of sector officers. They will be given training in three sessions on Wednesday at Samanvay Bhawan located in TT Nagar.

Assistant Nodal Officer Sandeep Srivastava said that there will be theoretical training in the first session, while EVM hands on will be given in the second session and questions and answers will be given in the third session.

Due to Lok Sabha elections, a control room has also been made in the Collectorate.

Due to Lok Sabha elections, a control room has also been made in the Collectorate. The same training will be done for Sehore Assembly.

There are total 8 assembly constituencies in Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. These include Narela, Huzur, Govindpura, South-West, North, Central and Berasia of Bhopal district, while Sehore assembly of Sehore district. Officers and employees for Sehore Assembly will be given training in Sehore itself.

For the Lok Sabha elections, a control room has also been made in the Collectorate. Its telephone number is 0755-2730395. Collector Singh said, the control room will be responsible for daily monitoring and reporting of complaints, registering and maintaining records, receiving reporting from ROMCC, VSTVV, SST sector officers, investigation of C-Vigil complaints received from observers during elections.