Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Majuli DC Inspects Remote Polling Station

Majuli: The District Election Department and the district administration of Majuli has geared up its poll preparedness for smooth conduct of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 in the river island district. To check the booth level preparations, the Deputy Commissioner cum District Election Officer, Majuli Debaprasad Misra on Friday visited one of the remotest polling stations of the district at Sadhu Chapori, a river islet surrounded by Brahmaputra and Subansiri, stated a press release.

Accompanied by the Sector Officer and BLO, the head of the district election department inspected the designated polling station in Sadhu Chapori LP School and took first hand knowledge on the Assured Minimum Facilities (AMFs) there. The ECI has already instructed the district election departments to provide AMFs like Ramp for PwD voters, provision of drinking water, toilets etc. in each polling station at the time of poll.

Misra had interactions with the school head and other islet dwellers and assured them that a replacement of the present iron-filled tube-well would be provided in the campus of the school within 3 days. The voter list of the polling station at Sadhu Chapori LP School enlisted a total of 404 voters from Sadhu Chapori, Param Chapori and Gutung Chapori. The Deputy Commissioner reached the remote islet of river Brahmaputra by crossing Pisala-Subansirimukh Suti, a rivulet near Luitmukh ghat under Gohpur subdivision of Biswanath district by a country boat. From the ghat on the other side of the rivulet, the Deputy Commissioner cum DEO along with his team had to travel almost a kilometre on foot to reach the polling station at Sadhu Chapori. It can be mentioned that Sadhu Chapori falls under Ahatguri area, a far away remote GP under Majuli Zila Parishad, geographically disconnected from the mainland of the island district by river Brahmaputra.

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