The district administration has made full arrangement for conducting transparent and peaceful election in four Nagar Palika Parishad and one Nagar Panchayat election in the Pauri district of Uttarakhand.
It is to be noted that Pauri, Srinagar, Kotdwar and Duggada are Municipal Council where Jonk Swarga Ashram is Town Area. Pauri Municipal Council comprised of 20 polling stations, out of these eight polling stations are most sensitive, while in Municipal Council has 16 polling station and eight are sensitive. In Kotdwar, out of 20 polling station, nine are most sensitive while in Duggada one polling station is sensitive out of 4 polling stations.
Out of four polling stations in Nagar Town Area, Jonk Swarga Ashram, one is most sensitive. District Magistrate had appointed SDM Nitin Bhadoriya as Zonal Magistrate, Suman Kumar Assistant Registrar, RC Mishra Assistant Engineer Jal Nigam and Virendra Johari Assistant Engineer PWD as Sector Magistrate for the election of Municipal Council Pauri, while SDM Razza Abbas appointed as Zonal Magistrate and Deepak Kumar Sales Tax Officer, Praveen Sani Assistant Engineer Jal Sansthan as Sector Magistrate for Srinagar local body election.
SDM Kotdwar Anil Singh Gabriyal will be Zonal Magistrate and Yammuna Khanduri Assistant Engineer, Naresh Chauhan Assistant Engineer Jal Nigam, Asha Ram Assistant Engineer Irrigation will be the Sector Magistrates for Kotdwar local body election. SDM lansdowne Pl Shah has been appointed as Zonal Magistrate and Pushpandra Singh BDO as Sector Magistrate for Duggada local body.
For Town area, Jonk Swarga Ashram SDM Yamkeshwar Puran Singh Rana has been appointed as Zonal Magistrate and Rameshwar Singh Chauhan BDO Yamkeshwar as Sector Magistrate. District Magistrate and Election officer (local bodies) Chandresh Kumar has instructed all polling officers and counting officers including the Zonal Magistrate, Sector Magistrate to perform their duties as per the instructions of the election commission during the organized training of the polling and counting officers on Monday.
District Magistrate said that Chief Development Officer has been given the responsibility of election nodal officer while Additional District magistrate Ravneet Cheema will act as Deputy Election Officer.
In the training session, the training in-charge Project Engineer Deepak Rawat said that there will two types of ballots (voting) papers, green voting papers will be for the President election of Pauri, Kotdwar, Duggada and Srinagar while the pink ballot paper for president of Town Area and for the election of members of Municipal Council and Town Area, the ballot papers will be of white colour.