The polling parties left for their respective stations after collecting election material for the first phase of urban body general election to be held on Monday.
In Raipur, the election material was distributed among the polling parties from the counters established at Government Engineering College, Sejbahar on Sunday morning. The officials said that these polling parties have been assigned duties to conduct polling for different wards of Raipur Municipal Corporation.
All the polling parties collected the election material including Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and went to their respective polling booth by 2pm. As many as 885 polling booths have been established in the city for RMC elections. Meanwhile, State Election Commissioner, PC Dalai visited Government Engineering College along with the district collector and district election officer, Thakur Ram Singh and other senior officers of the district administration and police department. The officers informed Dalei about arrangements made for distribution of the election material.
Dalei also took information about security and other arrangements made for the polls. He issued appropriate instructions to the officials concerned to ensure peaceful election. On the occasion, Additional Collector, MD Kavare, Raipur Zila Panchayat CEO, Kiran Koushal, Joint Collector, Padmini Bhoi Sahu and other senior officials concerned were present.