The district administration has decided not to deploy women in election duties in Raipur district during the upcoming lok Sabha elections.
The administration has also sent proposal for changing 11 polling centres to the State election commission considering the ease of voters. Apart from it, approval seeking of 156 auxiliary booths in the district have also been sent to EC, informed district Collector and returning officer, Thakur Ram Singh on Wednesday. The Collector addressing aPress conference said, considering the difficulties they (women) had to face in the absence of proper arrangements at the polling booths, it was decided.
“During my term as a district Collector in Bilaspur I had decided to make the experiment and now to replicate it in Raipur,” the Collector said. District Collector informed that there are nine Assembly constituencies in Raipur lok Sabha, including one and half constituency in the form of part of Baloda Bazaar and Bhatapara. Polling in Raipur seat will be conducted on April 24 and district administration is fully prepared to ensure smooth election, the Collector said.
There has been increase in number of voters of around 91,000, including 60,000 fresh voters, in Raipur lok Sabha seat, while the total number of voters in the Raipur lok Sabha seat is 18,75,452 including 9,64,948 male, 9,10,221 female and 283 other voters, he informed. Detailing further he said, total voters in Raipur lok Sabha seat include 3,65,063 from some spart of Baloda Bazaar-Bhatapara constituency. It consists of 1,85,026 male, 1,80,002 female.
In this way, the number of voters in Raipur is 15,10,389 including 7,79,922 male and 7,30,219 female voters, the Collector said.