Voting for the three- tier panchayat elections in three blocks of Nainital including Ramnagar, Kotabag and Betalghat will be held on Saturday.
The interesting fact is that with bumper voting on June 18 in first phase of polling, it is expected that voters will again participate in the polling to be held on June 21 in a big way.
It may be recalled that Ramgarh block recorded about 80 per cent polling followed by Dhari block with 78 per cent and Okhalkanda block with 70.39 per cent in Nainital district on June 18. However, as the officials concerned of the district election office, Nainital informed, as per the guidelines of the State
Election Commission, polling will be held between 7 am and 5 pm on Saturday in these three blocks of Nainital district
including Ramnagar, Kotabag and Betalghat.
In the meantime, the Nainital district police claims to have made elaborate security arrangements in all the polling booths in three blocks of Nainital including Ramnagar, Kotabag and Betalghat which are going to poll on Saturday.
It has also directed the police personnel deployed in the polling booths of the aforesaid blocks to strictly deal with those who are found disrupting the polling process and take necessary action against such persons as per the law.
At the same time no unauthorised person will be allowed inside the polling booths, asserted the district election office, Nainital. It is to note that voting is also going to be held for different posts of panchayat in many blocks of other districts of the Kumaon division in second phase on Saturday.