Dehradun District Election Officer (DEO) BVRC Purushottam has directed officials to ensure removal of political hoardings from around town and to enforce the Model Code of Conduct. He said this while chairing a meeting with returning officers, assistant returning officers, incharge and assistant incharge officers and police officers and directed them to complete their assigned works in the civic bodies elections properly.
Officers found negligent in execution of their assigned duties would be punished. The officers need to know about past civic bodies’ election in the area of their jurisdiction and take steps accordingly to avoid inconvenience during election.
The civic bodies election will be conducted under the guidelines released by state election commission. Candidates can purchase nomination papers between 10 am and 5 pm from April 8 to April 12, 2013. The nomination papers will be scrutinised on April 13 and candidates can withdraw their nomination by 4 pm on April 15. Candidates will be awarded election symbol on April 16 from 10 am. The polling will be held between 8 am to 5 pm on April 28 and counting of votes will begin from 8 am upto end of the counting on April 30.
At the meeting, officer in-charge, model code of conduct, Bansidhar Tiwari was directed to get all hoardings and banners removed from different places in the city and ensure that model code of conduct is being implemented.
Sub-divisional magistrate and police officers have been directed to identify sensitive and ultra sensitive booths and ensure adequate police deployment as required. Purushottam also directed officers to issue notices to those officers who failed to turn up for the meeting on Sunday.