As many as 8,28,406 voters are scheduled to exercise their franchise in the forthcoming general elections to be held on April 17 in the Jagatsinghpur district.
District Collector SK Mallick said this at a Press meet here on Wednesday. He informed that poll notification would be issued on March 19. The filing of nominations would continue till March 26 and scrutiny would be held on the next day. Similarly, the last date for withdrawal of nominations has been fixed for March 29. There would be about 1,025 booths in the district. While the maximum number of 302 booths would come up in Balikuda-Erasama Assembly constituency, Jagatsinghpur Assembly seat would have 235, Paradip 231 and Tirtol reserved seat 258 booths.
The District Collector has been assigned as the Returning Officer (RO) for the Jagatsinghpur lok Sabha seat while the Additional District Magistrate would be RO of Paradip and Tirtol Assembly seats. Simiarly, Jagatsinghpur Sub-Collector would shoulder the RO responsibility for the Jagatsinghpur and Balikuda-Erasama Assembly constituencies. As many as 15 nodal officers and about 125 sector officers would be deployed in the district’s election process.
Besides, the election expenditure of the all the candidates would be strictly watched separately. The candidates would be advised to open separate bank accounts and submit expenditure related transaction to the concerned election observes on regular basis, Mallick said.