The chief electoral officer of Uttarakhand, Radha Raturi has directed the officials concerned to ensure that there is no negligence in the security arrangements at the strong rooms established across the state for storing the electronic voting machines till the day of counting slated on March 11.
The chief electoral officer gave this direction while presiding over a video conference on Friday with all the district election officers, senior superintendents of police and superintendents of police. Raturi sought information regarding the security arrangements made by district administration and the police for strong rooms established in different parts of the state.
Addressing the officials concerned through video conferencing, she said that all attention should be paid to ensuring the security of strong rooms in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India (ECI). In order to secure the strong rooms containing the electronic voting machines used for polling on February 15 in the Vidhan Sabha election 2017, central paramilitary force personnel should be posted 24 hours in addition to which the state security personnel should also be posted as per the regulations. It was stated through the video conferencing that along with the strong rooms, the control rooms have also been set up.
Officials concerned, employees and police personnel are deployed in these control rooms 24 hours. All the strong rooms set up across the state will also be under the surveillance of closed circuit television cameras.
The state inspector general of police Deepam Seth, deputy inspector genera of police Pushpak Jyoti, all the district magistrates/district election officers, senior superintendents of police and the district superintendents of police were present in the video-conference.