Haryana Election Commission on Tuesday directed all the Deputy Commissioners and District Electoral Officers (DEO) to start preparations for the conduct of general elections 2015 of Panchayati Raj Institutions in the State. State Election Commissioner Rajeev Sharma said that election programme could be issued soon after the final publication of electoral rolls. Keeping this in view, all District Administrative Officers have been asked to start initial preparations of elections in their respective districts.
He also asked to collect the list of electoral officers, returning officers and other officers or officials to be appointed for the election related works during the election from concerned departments of their districts.Sharma said that all the employees should be given training in conduction of election and counting worHe also directed to collect the list of Master Trainers of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) from the District Election Office so that they would be deputed on duty as per the requirement.
Sharma said that the election of Panchayati Raj Institutions would be conducted through EVMs. Therefore, the officers and employees should be imparted training of EVMs prior to the elections.Apart from this, election material and EVM ballot box should be available in adequate quantity. He said that sensitive and hyper-sensitive polling centers should be identified and necessary steps should be taken in coordination with the police department so as to avoid the incident of violence, loot and booth capturing.
Also, adequate arrangements of security forces, lighting and water should be made at all polling centers. Prior permission of the Commission should also be obtained for conducting videography of sensitive and hyper-sensitive polling centers during the election, if needed, he said.The State Election Commission has also extended the voters list time schedule in respect of district Sirs, Mewat, Panchkula, Panipat, Fatehabad, Faridabad, Sonipat and Yamuna Nagar from the stage of disposal of claims and objections. The date of disposal of claims and objections has been extended in public interest in these districts.
Rajeev Sharma said that last date for disposal of claims and objections by the District Electoral Officers (Panchayat) would now be July 2.He said that the last date for filling an appeal before District Election Officer (P) against the decision of District Electoral Officer would be July 7 and last date by which the appeal would be disposed off by the Appellate Authority would be July 14. Final publication of voters list would be done on July 22.The Commission had issued notification for the preparation of voters list of Panchayati Raj Institution in 17 districts namely Sonepat, Yamuna Nagar, Sirs, Panchkula, Faridabad, Palwal, Kaithal, Rohtak, Fatehabad, Hisar, Panipat, Narnaul, Rewari, Mewat, Kurukshetra, Jind and Jhajjar where the work ofwardbandi (delimitation) has been completed.