Media Certification and Monitoring Committee will round-the-clock monitor election-related coverage in electronic and print media to track paid news, said District Election Officer Nishant Warwade.
Speaking to media persons here on Monday about the preparation and preparedness by the Monitoring Committee during the State Assembly elections, he further said the committee would be headed by him and the current rates of the media slots and advertisement have been collected and would be used by it as references for investigating any irregularities.
The charges of paid news or impact features would also be calculated on these rates, he added.
Alterations in the voter list were possible before 7 days of the voting date. He informed details about the current number of voters updated in the voter list, helpline for solving complaints of voters, communication plan, sweep plan, Block-level workers of political parties, randomisation of EVM machines, model code of conduct and vigilance committees.
At present the number of polling booths in Bhopal district is 1677 and after discussion with the political parties the proposed supporting polling booths have been forwarded to the Election Commission.
The candidates contesting election has to open an
individual bank account at least one day prior to the filing of nomination papers and according to the amendment in the RP Act 1951 by the Supreme Court, the name of the candidate should be mentioned properly in the nomination form and the form should be filled completely, in case if the form is not filled completely the candidate would be informed.
Warwade further informed that till date his office had not received any instruction regarding ‘Right to Reject’ but in case instructions were received, it would be incorporated accordingly. He also stated that four polling booths which were falling under in Berasia Assembly seat area did not have coverage of mobile networks.
Besides, he also shared the data regarding total number of voters updated till September 30 in all the Assembly seats of Bhopal.
The number of voters updated in the voters list - 195071 in Berasia, 224157 in Bhopal North, 266,569 in Narela, 202,202 in Bhopal South-West, 221,632 in Bhopal Central, 293,293 in Govindpura and 253,500 in Huzoor.