With the announcement of three-phase panchayat election schedule, the district administration has started preparations to ensure free and fair election in the district.
Collector, Dr Basavraju S on Monday presided over a meeting held in this regard at Collectorate and issued directions to the Assistant Returning Officers and officials appointed for the election. The officials concerned have been asked to show no negligence in performing polls related works assigned to them.
As per the instructions, as many as 10 nomination centers will be established in each development block for receiving nomination for the post of sarpanch and panch post. Assistant Returning Officers have been asked to remain present at the respective nomination center at the time of filing of nomination papers.
The Collector instructed officials to thoroughly check the nomination papers especially the column of caste of the candidate. No form should be rejected for mistakes. While the candidate’s declaration form will be required for the post of sarpanch, the same will not required for the post of panch. The candidate/proposer’s name should be there in the voters’ list.
The officials concerned were asked to enlist name of the candidates in ballot paper in alphabetical order. During the meet, the collector informed officials concerned about candidates’ self-declaration form/affidavit submission process, re-examination of nomination forms, process of withdrawing nomination forms, preparation/publication of final list of the candidates, distribution of poll symbols etc.
Deputy District Election Officer AN Sahu, Joint Collector PP Pradhan, Project Director of District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Sachhidanand Alok, Janpad Panchayat CEO, Shishir Sharma, RK Dhruv and AROs appointed for the panchayat election were present in the meeting.