The two expenditure supervisors Rajeev Ranade and MP Meena appointed by the Election Commission of India for Gwalior district held a meeting of officers connected with expenditure cell on Friday.
In the meeting, supervisors took information about arrangements to keep a watch on election expenditure of political parties and candidates in their constituency.
In the meeting, Collector P Narhari highlighted about expenditure to the supervisors and added that expenditure cell was working actively. A close watch is being kept on election canvassing through these cells under the directions of Election Commission. The Collector said that every single pie would be included in the campaigning expenditure in the account of candidate. An election expenditure cell has been formed on the second story of the collectorate for keeping the watch on the expenditure camping in all the six assembly constituencies of the district. A media cell is also working round-the-clock in divisional public relation office in Moti Mahalk to keep a watch on election advertisements, telecast from electronic media and paid news under the media checking and certification committee. The district election officer gave information in the meeting about flying squad, static surveillance team, video surveillance team, video viewing team and expenditure account team included in the expenditure monitoring team. He said that half a dozen assistant expenditure supervisors have been appointed to keep a watch in election expenditure in the district.