District election officer BVRC Purushottam and Senior Superintendent of police (SSP) Kewal Khurana carried out inspection at strong room in Race course.
They directed the officials to make proper security arrangements of the room where electronic voting machines would be stored after voting for local body polls.
DM said that the area required for counting should be acquired in schools and special care be taken that barricading doesn’t damage the buildings of the schools. Addressing the officials during training, the DM said that the returning officers are expected to perform their duty with dedication during the polling.
He said that polling was like a national festival in which all the officials should contribute with zeal. He said that ensuring free and fair polling was responsibility of each official on poll duty. He said that all doubts of the returning officers should be removed immediately and trainers should explain everything related to operation of the EVMs.
He said that each returning officer must check the polling material when it is given to them then and there, leaving no chance of any failure.
He said that zonal magistrates and sector magistrates should be constantly in touch with one another and should apprise the senior officials of any problem, if emerge, during polling immediately.
Jila Panchayat Raj Adhikari Mohammad Mustafa Khan and chief education officer MP Khali gave tips about operation of EVM to the returning officers.
They gave demonstration of operating and turning off the EVMs after polling ends. The returning officers asked several queries on how to turn off the EVMs.