Chief Electoral Officer Mukesh Kumar Meena giving particulars of preparations for the final elections.
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Preparations for the final elections to the 25 Lok Sabha (LS) and 175 Meeting constituencies in Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) are occurring in full swing because the Election Fee of India (ECI) is prone to announce the schedule subsequent month.
Crucial requirement of Digital Voting Machines (EVMs) has already been met. A complete of 92,000 EVMs (two every for 46,000 polling stations – one for LS and the opposite for Meeting polls) have already been sourced from Bharat Electronics Restricted and one other 20% saved as buffer inventory. The mixture variety of EVMs readied (all of them new machines) is thus 1,10,400.
The mechanical and knowledge checking of the EVMs, every one in every of which could have a controlling and a balloting unit and a Voter Verified Paper Audit Path (VVPAT system), has been accomplished, A.P. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Mukesh Kumar Meena informed The Hindu.
He stated tenders have been floated for the procurement of different election materials and so they have been going to be finalised in about 10 days.
So far as the election administration is worried, the coaching for all District Collectors was accomplished in January and the entire coaching programme is poised to be over by the tip of February.
The officers who’re immediately concerned in election obligation and accomplished three years at their locations of posting within the districts have been transferred. Within the Police Division, the officers from the sub-inspector rank who’ve accomplished the identical interval as above within the districts have additionally been shifted to different districts.
These transfers have been affected in January.
Mr. Meena stated the ECI took a severe view of the submissions of Type-7 in bulk and it ordered that the conspiracy angle must be duly examined in order that the Electoral Rolls (ER) may very well be purified.
The ECI goes to deploy three Static Surveillance Groups (SST) and an equal variety of Flying Surveillance Groups (FST) in every Meeting constituency with a view to strictly implement the Mannequin Code of Conduct (MCC).
Steady web-casting will likely be carried out from the SST centres whereas members of the FST are being offered GPS-enabled cameras to seize the photographs of wrongdoers.
Moreover, CCTV cameras will likely be fitted in any respect 20 distilleries within the State and on the liquor storage factors of the AP State Drinks Company Restricted additionally to curb distribution of liquor.
The ECI had a gathering with the Reserve Financial institution of India and the State-level Bankers’ Committee to take motion in respect of suspicious financial institution transactions, together with digital funds.
