For the first time women in the district got the opportunity for counting votes and they would do the work successfully, said collector and district electoral officer Anbalagan P.
Addressing the second training session of counting officers for the 2013 assembly election vote counting, held on the State Warehousing premises at Khokharabhatta in the district headquarters, the collector instructed the officers to do the counting work with zeal and watchfully.
Master trainers Dr Santosh Agrawal and Satish Agrawal imparted training on control unit after counting, sealing of poll materials and counting of postal ballots and listing to the supervisors, assistant, micro-observers, AROs and others deployed on counting duty. Returning officers and assistant returning officers of the assembly constituency concerned were also present on the occasion.
looking to the enthusiasm in the women employees, collector Anbalagan said that he had full hope that the vote counting work would be completed successfully. He said that counting work should not be done in a haste or hubbub. 14 tables each will be provided for the counting of each votes of each constituency.
The third training would be imparted on December 7 at 12 noon. For counting, all the officers and employees will have to be present on the State Warehousing premises in the district headquarters on December 8 at 6 am.