ECI issues instructions regarding security arrangements of polling booths

Chandigarh, February 19, 2013: The Election Commission of India has issued instructions regarding security arrangements of polling booths for Moga Bye Poll.

Disclosing this here today CEO Punjab said that Punjab Congress President Captain Amrinder Singh had recently approach the ECI for security arrangements. The ECI has ordered that adequate deployment of CPF should be made outside the polling station, depending on the sensitivity analysis by election officials in consultation with the observer. Extensive patrolling should be done by the CPF. Senior citizens and disabled persons should be permitted to either come in their own vehicles or in some public transport up to the polling station to cast their vote and they should not be asked to stand in queue and should be given priority over other voters in casting their votes.

The Commission has directed the district administration to ensure that all persons from outside the constituency who are not voters or candidates in the constituency should leave the constituency after the campaign period is over.

The returning officer has also been instructed to appoint one Micro Observer in each polling station location and every polling station must be covered with either a video camera or a digital still camera. The district administration will follow the ECI's guidelines in letter and spirit. The observer will be supervising the district administration in this effort.