Preparations are in the final phase by Ranchi District Administration for the upcoming bye-election for the Mandar Assembly constituency on June 23. For the successful completion of the bye-election, the preparations have been almost completed by the various cells constituted at the district level.
The material cell was inspected by the District Election Officer cum Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ranchi, Chhavi Ranjan on Tuesday. During this, the Electoral Officer, Mandar State Assembly, Albert Billung, NDC, KK Agarwal, District Public Relations Officer, Ranchi, Prabhat Shankar were present.
Ranjan conducted a surprise check on the packets made of polling materials to be given to the polling parties. He directed the concerned officials to ensure that polling material is made available as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India.
It may be mentioned here that the polling parties for the Mandar Assembly bye-election 2022 will be dispatched tomorrow on June 22. The polling parties will be dispatched for all the five blocks of Mandar Vidhan Sabha from the dispatch center set up in Morhabadi from the District headquarter.
Dress rehearsal for Mandar assembly bye-election was done today on June 21. Dress rehearsal for the Voter Turnout and Counting Module of Enabling Communications on Real-time Environment (ENCORE) was held in the Election Control Room, Room Number- 609, located in Collectorate Block A.
On this occasion Ranjan also inspected the entire system after reaching the control room. During this, Election Officer Mander Vidhan Sabha, Albert Billung, District Information and Science Officer, Shivcharan Banerjee, District Public Relations Officer, Prabhat Shankar along with deputed officers and personnel were present in the control room.
The DC directed the concerned officer to prepare a dummy database as per the instructions of the Election Commission and be aware of the entire process of voter turnout and counting module so that the process can be completed with full confidence on the counting day.
ENCORE is an application developed by the Election Commission to manage the election process. It has multiple modules for processes like nomination and scrutiny of candidates, seeking permission (for parties and candidates) and counting of elections.