Ghaziabad district administration is ready to conduct peaceful voting in the first phase of Parliamentary elections", claimed Ghaziabad district magistrate (DM) Ritu Maheswari and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Upendra Agrawal in a joint Press conference here on Monday.
Talking to the media persons, the DM said, "There will be 212, sector magistrates, 29 Zonal magistrates and 11 super zonal magistrates, on duty to conduct the voting on April 11, 2019 in a peaceful manner. Giving details, the DM said 46 poling centers have been identified as 'vulnerable'. In the meantime 98 persons have been identified as anti-social elements against whom preventive actions have been initiated".
The DM further said that 173 polling stations have been identified critical out of which 509. In order to help people in coming out to vote, 173 micro observers, 198 video cameras and 237 digital cameras have been installed for the real time recording. There are total 27, 09, 566 voters in the Ghaziabad Parliamentary seat. Keeping in mind the differently abled persons, the administration has arranged 281 wheel chairs and in addition to these, 100 additional wheel chairs and 50 tri-cycles have been kept in reserve at different polling stations. To facilitate disabled voters and for emergency need, 25 disabled friendly ambulances have been kept in readiness equipped with wheel chairs. To enforce model code of conduct and to keep a vigil on the activities of political parties, 18 flying squads, 18 static teams equipped with GPS tracking vehicles have been deployed. A keep an account of election expenses, a shadow register is also being maintained. A total 13,632 personnel will be deployed in addition to the force deployment.
Upendra Agrawal the SSP said that so far Rs 27.23 lakh in cash, 98.475 kilogram gold, 2.400 kilogram silver and 78 kilogram drugs have been recovered from the moving vehicles.
A total of 15,211 police and paramilitary forces will be on duty to conduct violence
free elections and that includes 11033 police and Paramilitary forces and 4,178 police personnel from the district police, the SSP added.