A meeting of district deputy returning officers and election observers will be held in connection with preparations for Vidhan Sabha elections to be held next year.
The meeting will be held at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer at Arera Hills here. The meeting is to be held at 10.30 am, will be addressed by Chief Electoral Officer Jaideep Govind. The purpose is to discuss how to conduct elections, electoral rolls and SVEEP plan. After the meeting, video-conferencing will be held from 5 to 6 pm.
Agenda of the meeting will include discussions on EVM verification, EVM conflict repair, EVM godown, action plan, incidents that took place during general elections in years 2008 and 2009, database of Central and State PSU employees for constitution of polling teams and status of complaints and writs in districts.
Under the issue of electoral rolls, discussions will be held on EPIC gap, voters’ gap in electoral rolls, gender gap, information of voters whose photographs are not included in electoral rolls.
Their mobile numbers, appointment of Booth level Officers (BlOs) in new polling booths, kit, training, BlO kit board, new kit boards replacing old ones, registration of BlOs etc.
Similarly, under SVEEP plan, appointment of SVEEP Plan Officers at district level, strategy pertaining to SVEEP Plan in districts, progress of voters’ facilitation centres, publicity of 1950 voters’ facilitation centre and hoardings etc. will be reviewed.
Directives have been issued to all the district collectors to send only district deputy returning officers and election observers to attend the meeting convened by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer. No other employee representing them will be allowed to participate in the meeting.