Chhattisgarh has received 35,150 ballot units, 29,300 control units and 30,435 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPATs) so far for upcoming Assembly polls and First Level Checking (FLC) of them have been done, informed State Chief Electoral Officer Subrat Sahoo on Friday.
While addressing a press conference here, he informed that the brief revision of the electoral roll of the State ended on September 7.
The objections received under it would be disposed off by September 20. Final publication of the electoral roll would be done on September 27 according to which the Assembly Elections-2018 would be held, he informed.
Informing about the recently held brief revision work of electoral roll, Sahoo informed that counter verification of voters above age of 100 years were being done and action was taken accordingly.
Special attention was given for registering the Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in voter list and special camps were held to enroll the third gender and leprosy affected, he informed.
Informing that VVPATs were being demonstrated at each polling booth, Hat-Bazaar of villages, Cinema Halls and in mobile van in urban areas, the CEO informed that it would be used in all the polling booths of the State in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The official further informed that recently training programmes were held for the police personnel in the state as well as at the district levels. Similarly Health Department had been instructed to make available special medical facilities to the polling teams and security personnel.
They have also been asked to conduct regular meeting of Medical Board and make necessary arrangement of Air Ambulance, he said.