The filing of nomination papers for seven Assembly constituencies of Raipur district would commence from Friday (October 26) as part of phase-II of Assembly polls.
The constituencies are — Dharsiwa, Raipur (Rural), Raipur Town (West), Raipur Town (North), Raipur (South), Arang and Abhanpur.
Each Returning Officer has been allocated separate rooms so that candidates can file the nomination papers with ease, said Raipur District Electoral Officer and District Collector, Basavaraju S while briefing media on Thursday.
He said that Raipur has sought 17 accessory polling booths apart from the existing 1847. The district has 169 sensitive and three polling centres are in critical category.
A total of 18 ‘Pink Booth’ are to be formed where all the polling staff would be women including presiding officer. Raipur would also have 56 model polling stations where all facilities are available for the electors, Basavaraju said.
Around 8865 polling personnel would be deployed and additional 10 per cent has been kept as reserve. Three distribution centres have been made and there would be only one collection centre, he pointed out.
The District Electoral Officer (DEO) said that on November 2, the Election Observers would be arriving and holding meeting with all surveillance teams and go through folder of evidences.
Raipur district has 1,643,823 electors out of which 839,233 are men, 806,024 are women and 260 are third gender electors. The EPIC penetration is 99.90 percent while service voters are 350.
The DEO said that to facilitate the candidates filing nomination papers for submitting the security deposit, single window system has been arranged in the Raipur collectorate premises.
He said in Raipur district till date cash of Rs 46 lakh, silver worth Rs 34 lakh have been seized which has been handed over to IT department while godown of tiffin box after seizure has been sealed along with registering FIR.
Complaints received from cVIGIL App, and others are being resolved while MCMC is monitoring the election related news both on print an electronic media, he said.