
Rajouri March,02: District Election Officer, Rajouri, Mohammad Aijaz Asad, today chaired a meeting with nodal officers and other officers associated with elections to review the preparedness for upcoming elections.
ADC,Nowshera,Sukhdev Singh Sanyal,ADC,Sunderbans,Vinod Bhel,Additional DC koteranka,Ved Parkash, Additional SP,ACD,Akhter Qazi,Liaqiat Choudhary,ACR,Mohd Ashraf,Deputy District Election Officer,Rizwan Asger, EXN PWD,PDD,PHE ,tehsildar and other were present on the occasion.
Threadbare discussion was held on various issues for smooth conduct of upcoming general election/State assembly elections 2019.The issues deliberated upon included functioning of District Contact Centres (DCCs), providing of necessary infrastructure for polling stations, status of polling stations and providing AMF at every polling station and functioning of various teams, facilities of webcasting in the polling stations, requirement and movement of EVMs/VVPATs, progress under SVEEP program, communication plan, transport facilities for polling parties, security management, imparting of training to the polling staff as per schedule and several other allied issues, related to the election process.
DEO also reviews the status of DSEs Logical errors and other aspects like addition deletion and transposition of voters. EROs were directed to expedite the process and submit the report within two days.DEO also discussed the progress made under the bridging gender gap and directed the EROs to generate booth level awareness among the rural masses so that the vast gap can be mitigated.
Regarding the training of polling personnel, the nodal officer training and manpower informed that the first phase of training has been concluded. The training was conducted constituency wise at different locations and were conducted by master trainers and the assembly constituency level master trainers. He further informed that around 5000 polling personnel have been trained so far.
Nodal officer SVEEP informed that the special election vans Jashn-e jumariyat, exclusively flagged off for generation of awareness among voters and to acquaint them with the EVMs and VVPATs.He also informed that under SVEEP a total of 1200 ASHAs and Anganwadi workers were sensitised about the election process. He further said special awareness camps and nukad Nataks are being organised at different locations in association with J and K academy of art, culture and languages Rajouri.
Regarding the Assured Minimum facility at each polling station,DEO directed RDD mad PWD for the construction of Ramps and set 10th March as the deadline.Similarly EXN PDD,PHE were directed to ensure power and water supply at each polling station. Regarding the construction of toilet education department was directed to conduct a survey and construct the toilet at each polling station by 10th of March and submit a compliance report.
It is informed that there are 614 polling station out of which 65 have been categorised as hyper sensitive and 147 as sensitive polling stations.Similarly the ASP was instructed to deploy the police personnel accordingly.
DEO asked the concerned officers to work in coordination and remain proactive for successful completion of ensuing elections.