Chandigarh,
14th December, 2016: The 26 wards of the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation will go on
poll on 18th December 2016, wherein over five lakh voters will be casting their
votes. There will be 445
polling booths and about 800 approximately EVMs procured for the elections.
The MC Election has 3 Election
Observers, 7 Returning officers, 3 Expenditure Observers. Each Returning Officer
has 2 ARO’s each. The administration has set up 7 enforcement teams comprised
with staff of Chandigarh Police, Estate Office and Municipal Corporation. The
election has 445 BLO’s who are supervised by 16 Master BLO’s.
In view of the Current Elections all
the 7 enforcement teams under the supervision of the Returning officers are
keeping a strict vigil in their respective areas in order to ensure that the
implementation of the Model Code of Conduct is not violated, further to which a
daily report is submitted by all the enforcement teams to their respective
Returning officers. The returning officers have conducted rounds in their respective
wards and have been keeping a constant check on any kind of violations.
To ensure that the residents of the
city are well appraised about the voting, the Education Department, Chandigarh
Administration has been organising voter’s awareness campaigns in various
government and private schools with activities like painting competitions, oath
taking, nukkad nataks etc.
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