Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand. Ravi Kumar on Tuesday took stock of the progress of election preparations in Khunti Lok Sabha constituency including various polling stations and door-to-door distribution of voter information slips. He took information about the work done so far and being done by the BLO regarding the Lok Sabha elections. Instructions were given to bring progress in the work. He said that this time there is a provision of incentive for BLOs working in the Lok Sabha elections. But, BLOs with poor performance or negligence in work will be deprived of incentives. He encouraged all the BLOs to do good work and asked them to complete the election work on time.
The Chief Electoral Officer went to Pipra Toli Belahathi Road, Khunti and took information about the distribution of Voter Information Slips by BLOs among the voters. Also inspected the forms filled by them.
He met the BLOs at the polling stations located at Karra Road, Urban Primary Health Center of Khunti district and got information about the updated status of the works related to Lok Sabha elections. Apart from this, he inspected the polling stations located at CM School of Excellence (Girls), Khunti and Community Hall, Namkom. The Chief Electoral Officer took updated information about absent/shifted/death list, voter information slip, polling station awareness group and directed to bring progress in the work. He directed to complete the distribution of voter information slips among all voters by May 3. Besides, BLOs, supervisors and senior officials were asked to speed up the preparations for the election work.
Before this, the Chief Electoral Officer conducted a surprise inspection of Kalamati check post in Khunti district. Expressing displeasure over the laxity of the soldiers and magistrates deployed at the check post, he directed to keep a close watch on the movement of vehicles and conduct thorough checking of the vehicles. He said that any kind of negligence in vehicle checking work will not be tolerated.
During the inspection of the Chief Electoral Officer, Khunti District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Lokesh Mishra, Sub-Divisional Officer Aniket, Block Development Officer Jyoti Kumari etc. were present.
Later in the day, Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar also inspected various polling stations which had low voting percentage during the last elections in Simdega and observed the preparations for voting. He directed the Deputy Commissioner, Simdega to take action against the BLO and Supervisor of Polling Station No. 162 of Chief Minister Girls Excellent School, Simdega for negligence in their work. The voting percentage at these booths was low in the last elections. In the voter list of this polling station, names of many voters were found who no longer live here. There were names of many government employees who had been transferred earlier. The names of such voters have neither been removed from the voter list nor have they been included in the Absent, Shifted or Death i.e. ASD list.
