Election Commission Ascertain Preparedness For Ensuing LS Polls In Telangana

Hyderabad, Feb 7 (Maxim News): Senior Deputy Election Commissioner of Central Election Commission Nitesh Kumar Vyas conducted an elaborate review meeting at CEO’s office today, to ascertain the preparedness of its machinery in the State for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections to be held in the country. While appreciating the efforts of the State Team in conducting elections to the State Assembly successfully, he suggested the officials identify areas where they encountered problems recently and asked them to work out strategies to overcome them.

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 Vikas Raj, Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana,  appraised him of the arrangements made so far including the training sessions conducted so far. He along with his team discussed several issues with the Central EC member and sought clarifications on certain issues. Lokesh Kumar, Addl CEO,  Satyavani, Dy. CEO, Sarfaraz Ahmad, Joint CEO, Sanjay Jain, IPS, SPNO, Mahesh Bhagwat IPS, ADG & Nodal Officer for Election Expenditure and other officials, assisted him in the meeting.

Vyas informed the meeting that ECI is coming up with updated and consolidated instructions to be followed on the issue of nominations and voting by those on election duty. He also asked the meeting to work out the estimates on the requirement of uniformed forces and also on the budgetary requirements for the coming Lok Sabha Elections in the State. He also advised to clear dues of TSLA-23 immediately.

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The senior Dy. The Election Commissioner advised the state CEO to strengthen the IT Applications and other such technology related systems for the best use of conducting elections. He advised the officials to be cautious in handling ENCORE App, instead of making revisions later. He appreciated the use of cameras outside the polling stations at certain locations and the deterrent effect it had. 

He advised frequent meetings by the CEO with enforcement agencies to kick-start the regulation of these items and cash. When the issue of large-scale seizures in the last Assembly elections came up for discussion, he instructed them to make arrangements to issue receipts with all the details including the names of officers on duty, to the public for every seizure. He advised the CEO to give sufficient publicity this time in advance on the seized items that have proper records and asked them to simplify the procedure in recollecting it by the people. In the case of the gold ornaments and metal which traders carry regularly for business transactions, he suggested the CEO team to study the procedure followed in Tamilnadu and to emulate it.

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On the issue of printing of Postal Ballots at district level to avoid delays in distribution, he said ECI will take decision soon and on the issue of counting of large number of postal ballots in the State, he asked them to be flexible in allotting the counting tables instead of sticking to the standard 14 + 1 format and asked them to set up tables for each 500 postal ballots for faster counting. (Maxim News) 

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