The district police have made three-tier security arrangements here for counting of votes to be held in the FM College premises on Friday. Votes of all Assembly constituencies excepting Nilgiri would be counted in the college’s commerce block.
Police personnel will be stationed for outer cordon at the Babylon Square and Mallikaspur Square. The intermediate cordon would be manned by State Armed Police personnel near the main gate of the FM College. They would allow only authorised persons to enter the counting campus.
Item such as cell phones, cameras, match boxes, cigarettes, bags water pouches, bottles and lighters would not be allowed inside the campus. Similarly, motor vehicles will not be allowed to pass through the FM College road. They would be diverted through the ITI Square and the Hemkapada Square.
Votes of the Nilgiri constituency will be counted at the Nilgiri Sub-Collector’s office. The stretch of road from Kutcheri to the by-pass has been declared as no traffic zone.