As the five assembly constituencies—Ranchi, Silli, Hatia, Khijri and Kanke—are scheduled to go to the on Tuesday, the district administration is ready for the most important democratic process. As many as 8201 polling officials (including officials kept as reserve) have been deployed by the district administration for conducting polls in the third phase of the Assembly elections.
Besides, hundreds of security personnel have also been deployed for election duty. “We will request our voters to come out and give us distinction (75 per cent voting) this time,” said Ranchi DC Vinay Kumar Choubey.
The five constituencies had witnessed more than 60 per cent polling percentage in 2014-lok Sabha elections in Silli, Khijri, and Kanke whereas Hatia saw a turnout of 57.95 per cent and Ranchi was at the bottom with 53.38 per cent
Notably, 1768 polling centre have been setup across the five constituencies and that includes 1185 extremely sensitive polling centre and 514 sensitive polling centre where security has been strengthened to conduct hassle free voting.
Facility of webcasting has been introduced at 124 polling stations whereas video cameras have been installed at 112 stations in the constituencies. The concept of ‘model booths’ will be implemented in this elections also as 190 booths have been setup under the category that has been introduced to encourage voters to participate in the election.
As many as 1499104 male and female voters will casting their vote in today’s election in the five constituencies and Hatia sits at the top in terms of number of voters whereas Silli is at the bottom with 1,83,990 numbers of voter. A 10-member team of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission observed the entire process of election management at Morhabadi and met the CEO of Jharkhand, PK Jajoria to understand the electoral process.