There are 17,712 sensitive polling booths out of the total 65,367 polling booths in the state for Vidhan Sabha Election-2018. Special vigil will be maintained on all these polling booths.
Along with this, vigil will be maintained on 6,500 polling booths, 4,600 polling booths and 6,700 polling booths through webcasting, videography and CCTV cameras respectively.
Besides, the personnel of the Central Security Force and Micro Observers will also keep vigil on these sensitive polling booths.
It may be mentioned that over 12,000 Central Government’s employees working in the state have been made Micro Observers and trained by the Observer of the Election Commission.
Total 3,00,782 election workers have been posted at the polling booths to hold Vidhan Sabha Election-2018 including 2,54,878 males and 45,904 females.
Three thousand 46 polling booths will be run by the female workers and 160 PWD booths will be run by handicapped employees.
Besides, 12,363 micro observers including 12,211 males and 152 females have been deployed at the polling booths to ensure fair and free election.
Over 1.80 lakh personnel of the security force have been deployed in the state that include over 67,000 personnel of the Central Security Force and 33,000 personnel of Home Guard called from other states.
Meanwhile, facility to cast votes will be provided on the basis of photo voter slips distributed by the Election Commission to all the voters for Vidhan Sabha Election-2018. If any voter does not possess the voter slip but his/her name appears in the voter list then he/ she will be allowed to cast vote on November 28 on the basis of photo voter card, passport, driving license, driving license, PAN card, aadhaar card, MNERGA job card, photo pass book issued by the banks and post office, smart card issued by RGI and NPR, Photo pension documents, identity cards issued to Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly, photo service ID card issued to employees of the State and Centre, public undertakings, state public limited companies.