Women employees have been trained in the district headquarters for counting of votes on December 8 for the recently concluded Assembly polls in the State.
The Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh were conducted in two phase on November 11 and 19 this year for a total of 90 seats.
Collector and District Election Officer Ambalgan P said that the counting for the votes cast in a total of six Assembly segments of the district would take place in the premises of State Warehousing Corporation at Khokhrabhanta in the district headquarters.
While addressing women employees trained for the counting work, the Collector stated that vote counting exercise is a mathematical task and should not be carried out in haste.
He said that the officials and employees cannot carry their mobile phones, papers and other banned items into polling centres.
Ambalgan said that there would be a total of 84 tables for counting of votes at the designated centres in the district headquarters. There would be a separate table each for counting of postal ballots for every Assembly segment, he said.
Deputy District Election Officer C l Yadav informed that there were a total of 1,257 polling stations established in the six Assembly segments besides 48 Auxilliary polling stations. He said that a total of 1,305 teams were formed in the six Assembly segments for polling work.