The district election office, Nainital, is going to set up as many as 13 new polling booths in different assembly constituencies of the district.
Presently there are as many as 847 polling booths spreading across six different assembly constituencies of the Nainital district i.e. 116 in the lalkuan assembly constituency followed by the Bhimtal assembly constituency with 143 polling booths, the Nainital assembly constituency (reserved) with 146polling boooths, the Haldwani assembly constituency with 158 polling booths, the Kaladhungi assembly constituency with 155 polling booths and the Ramnagar assembly constituency with a total 129 polling booths, the officials concerned of the district election office, Naintal, said.
However, those Assembly constituencies where the new polling booths have to be opened are the Bhimtal assembly constituency, the Naintal Assembly constituency and the Kaladhungi assembly constituency, added the officials concerned.
At the same time out of the 13 proposed polling booths a maximum nine polling booths have to be set up in the Kaladhungi assembly constituency, while three polling booths have to be opened in the Bhimtal assembly constituency and one new polling booth has been proposed in the Naintal assembly constituency (reserved), further said the officials concerned of the Nainital district election office.
However, there will be no change in the number of polling booths of rest of the three assembly constituencies including the lalkuan, Haldwani and the Ramnagar assembly constituencies, they added.
Apart from opening new polling booths, buildings of three polling booths have also to be changed in the Bhimtal assembly constituency while building of one polling booth has to be changed in the Nainital assembly segment (reserved) , the officials concerned further said.
Similarly, buildings of three polling booths have to be changed in the Kaladhungi assembly constituency while buildings of as many as 18 polling booths have to be changed in the Ramnagar assembly constituency. Thus buildings of a total 25 polling booths have to be changed in different assembly segments across the district.
It is worth mention here that following the directions of the Election Commission of India, the Nainial district election office is going to complete the restructuring of polling booth exercise. Therefore, the district election office Nainital has directed the officials concerned to complete necessary formalities on time.
There are presently a total 847 polling booths in the district. Now as many as 13 new polling booths have been proposed, said U S Rana, Deputy Election Officer, district election office Naintal. In view of the roll revision exercise on the basis January 1, 2015, necessary steps are being taken, he added.