In the recent campaign to add names of new voters in the voter list, in Hazaribagh district about 80,000 new names have come in which 52,487 are youths who have just attained the age of 18.
Addition of names is going on and before election a subsidiary list will be published, it was said by DC cum returning officer of Hazaribagh Sunil Kumar in a PC held on Wednesday evening.After issue of notification of election of Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency this was the first PC of the returning officer in which he informed that there are 1334 booths in Hazaribagh district, 1084 of Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency and 250 of Koderma. The district administration has made all the necessary arrangements for free, fare and fearless election.
In Hazaribagh district, 540 booths have been identified as supersensitive, 592 as sensitive and 202 of general category. 26 booths are most supersensitive and district administration has demanded helicopter for transporting poll personals and patrolling there. These booths are in Chauparan, Keredari and Vishnugarh blocks. DC Kumar said that this time we need about 1,200 vehicles for election purpose and the vehicles will be taken from the owners’ atleast one week before the date of poll. “This time, we are not going to use trucks for the transportation of polling parties.”
On the first day of nomination paper filing no one came forward, DPRO Rashmi Sinha informed that only one person has purchased the paper. DC Kumar informed that this time the election commission has fixed five points in which one is to be followed on every booth and we have arranged accordingly.
There will be micro observers on 325 booths, direct telecast of polling form 30 booths, videography of polling of 70 booths, still photography and installation of CCTV cameras is on progress. We have identified 52 booths where last time voting percentage was less than 20% and this time we are stressing upon those areas to increase the voting percentage. Awareness program at panchayats and haat bazaars are going on.This time on every booth there will be a help desk and voters slip will reach to every voter before election day with his personal request letter to use their right.
When asked about the problems of EVM failures like previous elections DC Kumar cleared that this time ample number of EVMs are available and on each cluster 22% extra EVMs will be available along with the technical experts.After announcement of election program so far 32 FIRs have been lodged, 656 persons have been bond booked under section 107 of CRPC and 387 arms have been deposited.
In this election manpower more than 10000 is needed in which the number of police and paramilitary personals are not included.The district administration is also preparing for peaceful celebration of Ramnavmi.