All arragements have been made to ensure peaceful conduct of counting process in the state on December 18 for Vidhan Sabha elections 2017, Himachal Chief Electoral officer Pushpendra Rajput said on Saturday.
He said counting for all 68 vidhan sabha segments would start simultaneously at 48 counting centers in the state at 8 am.
The CEO said 2820 Counting staff has been deployed which includes counting supervisors, counting assistants and micro observers. There will be 781 counting Tables and 68 R.O.s Tables for counting.
Rajput said that wire mesh barricading to 8 feet upto 10 feet has been done at counting centers and a seperate entry passage for counting staff and counting agents. Three Tier Security arrangements have been made at all counting centres.
Media Room and Public Communication Room set up at all counting centres. Videography and CCTV coverage will be done in all counting centres.
Counting will commence with postal ballot papers to be counted at the RO table and scanned with QR reader. Therafter EVMs counting process will start. One polling station from each assembly constituency will be randomly selected for counting of VVPATs slips.
In the Vidhan Sabha 2017 elections, as many as, 37, 83,580 electors cast their vote out of 50, 25,941 total electors on November 9 with record polling percentage of 75.28 per cent.