The deputy election officer and district chief development officer AK Pandey has ordered deduction of one day's salary of 10 zonal magistrates and 47 sector magistrates who did not attend the first day of training programme for three tier panchayat poll held at Town Hall in Dehradun on Tuesday. A total of 32 zonal magistrates and 139 sector magistrates have been appointed for completion of panchayat poll in Dehradun. The appointed zonal magistrates and sector magistrates were trained for poll duty to complete three-tier panchayat election peacefully.
Pandey said that polling percentage in panchayat election can be increased if law and order is maintained in the polling areas. Zonal magistrates and sector magistrates are responsible for maintaining law and order in their assigned area. He directed the officers to take stock of polling booths and identify sensitive and ultra-sensitive polling stations soon so that adequate police force can be deployed for peaceful completion of panchayat poll.
ADM (Finance and Revenue) Pratap Shah told the officers to attend the training programme seriously so that they do not face any problem during election. The Panchayat election is different from lok Sabha election. Electronic Voting Machines are used for voting in lok Sabha election and Vidhan Sabha election while ballot papers are used for voting in the Panchayat election. The presiding and polling officers will be trained on June 8, 9 and 10 at ONGC auditorium. Second training will be held betweenJune 12 and June 17 at Town Hall. The training programme will be held in three phases.
The chief education officer SP Khali said that officers should learn election process in detail and they should inspect their assigned polling booths as a part of election preparations.
Master trainer MM Khan said that in Panchayat election, polling is held for four posts. Two ballot boxes will be kept in each polling centre. In one ballot box, ballot papers for gram panchayat member and gram panchayat pradhan will be dropped while ballot papers for district Panchayat member and Block Panchayat member will be dropped in second ballot box. All the ballot papers are of four different colours. White colour ballot paper will be for Gram Panchayat member, green ballot paper for Gram Panchayat Pradhan, blue for Block Panchayat member and pink for district Panchayat member.