Ahead of the Vidhan Sabha election slated for 2017, the district magistrate and district election officer Ravinath Raman has appointed nodal officers constituency-wise for monitoring election campaigning expenditure which will be spent by candidates of various political parties and independent candidates. Mohammad Gulfam Ahmed, chief treasury officer has been appointed as nodal officer-election expenditure while Sanjeev Kumar Singh, senior finance officer of animal husbandry was made assistant nodal officer election expenditure. Assistant treasury officer Tyuni, Bheem Singh and assistant treasury officer, Girish lal has been deputed at expenditure monitoring cell and call centre. The election officer has made several teams including flying squad, video monitoring team and others on constituency wise. All the Police station officers have been directed to form a surveillance team comprised of four police personnel in their jurisdiction. Regional Tehsildar, additional Tehsildar would assist the formed surveillance team at their level. Magisterial power has been given to video vigilance team officer and flying squad officer. The district officials who have been appointed on election duty have been directed to act as per Election Commission of India’s guidelines. All the employees deputed on election duty have been directed to attend a meeting at 11.30 am at the Town Hall for their training on December 26.