Out of 648 polling booths during fourth phase of Panchayat elections in Ranchi on Saturday, 320 booths have been identified as most sensitive, 237 as sensitive along with 91 as general booths.
Talking to the media persons in Ranchi, SSP Prabhat Kumar and District Deputy Election Officer Geeta Chubey said that adequate arrangement of armed forces on all booths along with patrolling parties and magistrates have been made to conduct free and fair polls during the fourth phase of Panchayat elections in Ranchi. “A total number of 2,100 armed forces of 10 companies along with 450 officers have been deployed for Panchayat elections on Saturday,” said Kumar. Fourth phase of Panchayat elections being most vulnerable from security point of view, regular area dominations are being done to avoid any untoward incident during the polls, added the SSP.
“Fourteen arms and 63 ammunitions have been recovered during the search operations along with several mobile phones and motorcycles,” the SSP said. According to Kumar, efforts have been made to ensure deployment of forces in the remote areas. Polling will be conducted from 7 am to 3 pm on Saturday. A centralized control room has also been set up for monitoring of polls during the elections. Anyone can call on the composite control room on 0651-6570480 for making any complaint regarding polling. Four blocks of Ranchi, going for polls on Saturday include Tamar, Bundu, Sonahatu and Rahe, having a total of 2, 20,641 voters.
Four Zonal Magistrates – SOR Nesar Ahmed for Bundu, ADM law and Order Girija Shankar Prasad for Sonahatu, Additional Collector Shailendra Kumar lal for Tamar and Deputy Collector, land Reforms, Jia-ul-Ansari for Rahe, along with Patrolling Magistrates have also been appointed for the polls.