Palamu administration air lifted 18 presiding officers and two patrolling magistrates for Chak cluster where the third phase poll is on December 5. The airlifting was done from Chiyanki air strip here.
According to the Palamu district panchayati raj officer Shanti Kumar Pandey there are in all 18 booths in Chak. These 18 presiding officers air lifted this Friday would be joined there at Chak by polling officers who had already reached and joined the cluster.
Palamu administration has done a very wise thing to draft officials like polling officer one and two and other from the government employees belonging to the contiguity of Chak. Their number is 54.
The chopper would bring back these 18 presiding officers and patrolling magistrates to Daltonganj on December 6 as sources said the poll ends at 3 pm and completion of poll process takes a lot of time and thus presiding officers will not be in a position to board the chopper in time as that is before the time the Sun gets weaker.
Chak has enormous notoriety from extremism point of view and every election be it Vidhan Sabha, lok Sabha polling teams are air lifted for this Chak.
Meanwhile DIG Police Palamu Saket Kumar Singh said ‘ As the SP latehar Anup Birtharey is on leave he has inducted the security teams for the poll in latehar. I briefed the boys and asked them not to throw caution to wind and no level of alertness be dropped either.
Anup’s relatives have met with an accident in Moreina this week on coming from Gwalior. DIG Saket is camping in latehar and is monitoring the day to day affair of policing there.
Singh said the morale of the boys is high but there is no room for complacency.