Haryana State Election Commission on Saturday said it has completed all arrangements for ensuring peaceful, free and fair poll for the elections to 14 Municipal Councils and 28 Municipal Committees as well as by-elections to be held on Sunday.
State Election Commissioner, Haryana Rajeev Sharma said that keeping in view the heat wave conditions prevailing in the State, an advisory has been issued to all Deputy Commissioners to ensure that all voters in queue should be under a shelter. They should also make necessary arrangements for drinking water at all polling stations and also ensure that an ambulance is available on call immediately.
He said that elections were being held for 14 Municipal Councils, 28 Municipal Committees and ward number 9 of Municipal Corporation, Panipat, ward number 1 of Municipal Council, Rewari and ward number 7 of Municipal Committee Kalanaur.
Sharma said that polling would be conducted from 7 am to 5 pm. The counting of votes of these institutions would be done immediately after the poll.
A total of 1,730 candidates are contesting elections for 354 wards of the Municipal Councils and 1,608 for 436 wards of Municipal Committees. There are 13,85,966 voters in these institutions. As many as 6,180 officials and 132 duty magistrates and supervisors have been deployed to conduct these elections.
For the by-elections, 10 candidates are contesting elections for three wards of the Corporation/Council/Committee. There are about 25,145 voters in these wards and about 110 polling staff have been deployed. Out of 22 polling stations, five have been declared as sensitive and one as hyper-sensitive.
Officials have made a heavy deployment of police force to maintain the law and order at the polling stations and sensitive areas. Out of 1,391 polling stations, 261 have been as declared sensitive and 168 as hyper-sensitive. There would be adequate police force at all the sensitive and hyper-sensitive polling stations, Sharma added.
He said that the Commission had, in association with National Informatics Centre (NIC), Haryana, developed an e-dashboard for monitoring the departure of polling parties, their arrival at
polling booths and the progress of the polling. The progress of voting, counting and results could be accessed at www.secharyana.com.