With a view to conducting the upcoming panchayat polls in a smooth and peaceful manner, the Nainital district administration has deployed 7,500 polling personnel in the district.
As many as 854 polling booths have been set up to deal with the panchayat elections in all eight blocks of the district, said Akshat Gupta, District Election Officer (DEO), Nainital.
There are a maximum 284 polling booths have been set up in Haldwani block followed by Ramnagar block with 105 polling booths, Kotabag block with 95 polling booths , Betalghat block with 86 polling booths, Bhimtal and Okhalkanda blocks with 85 polling booths each, Ramgarh block with 68 polling booths and Dhari block with 47 polling booths, added Gupta.
Each of the polling booth will be manned by four polling personnel. An additional polling personnel will be deployed in a particular polling booth in case of more voters in that polling booth than other polling booths, informed the officials concerned of the Nainital district election office.
All the newly appointed polling personnel will be given training on how to conduct the panchayat polls smoothly, on June 9 and June 10 in the district, added the officials concerned of the Nainital district election office.