District Collector Mukesh Bansal has directed officials to commence preparation of a digital data base of all the teachers and education department employees in view of the forthcoming Assembly polls in the State.
Chairing a meeting of the Block level Education Department officials at the District Collectorate on Saturday, Bansal directed that the details of all the teachers and Education Department employees be fed in the database by July 25 this year.
There are an estimated 10,000 employees of the Education Department working in the district, an official statement stated. The District Collector also directed that the data on every subordinate Teacher as well as Education Department employees must contain their residential address, general place of residence, Assembly Area Number and place of posting.
The database must also comprise a picture of the employee with the EPIC number based on which they would be deployed for poll duty, he said.
Bansal told the Block Education officers that every teacher would need to keep their voter identity card with them.
This apart, the District Collector stated that during the polling process , the picture of the Presiding officers, Polling officers in their order of duty would be made available at the booth.
He said that postal ballot could also be cast on the basis of the EPOC card with the voters.