With a view to conduct the upcoming panchayat poll in a free and fair manner, the Almora district administration claims to have appointed as many as many as 12 Returning officers (ROs) and 95 Assistant Returning Officers (AROs).
At the same time, as the officials concerned of the Almora district administration informed, as many as 1245 polling booths have also been set up across the district to ensure smooth conduct of the said panchayat elections.
In the meanwhile, Ajeet Singh, Deputy Commissioner of the state election commission, has asked the officials concerned of the Almora district administration, to allocate village panchayats to the ROs and AROs so that they could do necessary panchayat poll related works on time in their respective areas.
He has also asked the officials concerned to complete all other panchayat election related formalities including updating of electoral rolls at the village panchayat level in time, adding if need be take the permission of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for opening new polling booths.
The nomination process must be followed as soon as the notification in regard to the panchayat polls is issued, suggested Singh, adding respective Block Development Officers (BDOs) will be responsible for all panchayat poll related preparations.