Officials engaged in poll duty to use election duty certificate or postal ballot paper

A Correspondent

Haflong: As the polling day is drawing close in 16-Haflong (ST) LAC of Dima Hasao, the phase-wise training of all polling officials was completed on Thursday. There are around 1,160 polling officials engaged for duties at 242 polling stations, 71 sector officers and 13 zonal officers, including reserve officials.

An elaborate security arrangement has been made within the district for 67 police sectors and 11 zones as prepared for the peaceful conduct of the election process in Dima Hasao. More than 1,200 security personnel from five companies of CRPF and nine companies from Assam Police Battalion have been engaged to ensure peaceful poll in Dima Hasao.

Around 2,000 officials in Dima Hasao have been engaged in various duties in the Lok Sabha election which will be held here in the second phase on April 18. To ensure that polling staff do not miss out on casting their votes, there is an election duty certificate (EDC) and postal ballot paper (PBP) cell. This cell is entrusted to receive the applications for issue of election duty certificate or postal ballot paper to those engaged in various cells during the election. Around 15 members have been trained and entrusted with the duty to look after this segment of service to the election staff members. Till the time of filing this report, around 357 had applied for EDC and around 225 for postal ballot.

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