With only two days left for the Kandhamal lok Sabha by-election, the polling parties began leaving for their respective booths on Monday morning. As many as 183 vehicles have been arranged to ensure timely arrival of the polling parties.
The State’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has engaged a total of 1,081 polling officials for the smooth conduct of the bypoll. The CEO has appointed Sumit Haldar as Poll Observer and Prasanna Kumar as Expenditure Observer.
The CEO has also appointed 24 Sector Officers for a total of 221 booths and a Nodal Officer for each booth to oversee poll proceedings.
Besides, eight teams have been formed to keep an eye on law and order while four flying squads, three static surveillance teams, two video surveillance teams and one video viewing team have been constituted to ensure strict adherence to the model code of conduct, which is in force from September 12.
Voting would begin from 7 am to 4 pm on October 15 while counting of votes would be held at the Nayagarh Autonomous College at 8 am on October 19. The results would be announced in the afternoon the same day.