The much awaited Executive Committee elections of Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FJCCI), which was postponed due to technical glitches on September 8 will now take place on Sunday.
The voting will commence at 9 am and continue till 6 pm. The results will be declared on the same day. Former FJCCI president and Supervisor of the polling, Bishnu Budhia informed that this time a few changes have been made in the voting system. “This time a printer will be connected which will give printout of vote. Two ballot boxes will be kept along with the computer system. The voter will have to get print out of their vote and put in the box,” he said.
For the successful completion of polling help is being taken by as many as 45 students of Chartered Accountancy and Company Secretary, led by CA Pankaj Makkar and CA Sandeep Jalan. The entire process of polling and counting will be done in the presence of a magistrate appointed by the district administration.
The election was cancelled on its scheduled date on September 8 following technical glitches in the polling system. This was for the first time that computerised voting system was introduced in the FJCCI elections. When the technical glitch could not be sorted, Budhia held a meeting with both the contesting teams and decided to reschedule the election to September 15.
The two teams contesting elections were led by incumbent Secretary General FJCCI Kunal Azmani and noted businessmen Kishore Mantri, respectively.
This is the 57th Executive Committee election of FJCCI since its inception in 1960. Budhia said that a total of 3414 members of the trader community will elect the 21 member committee including a president, two vice presidents, a secretary general, honorary secretary, two joint secretaries and one treasurer. “Other than this, 6 vice presidents will be elected from their respective regions from the State. Rest of the elected members will be executive committee members,” he added.
Informing about the voting process the election Supervisor said that in attempt to conduct fair election, the Chamber made a new rule this time that the voter will have to verify their identity at first then he can get voting slip to cast their vote. “For this two online counters were installed.
A total of 30 computerised polling system were also installed at the polling centre
to conduct fast polling as one voter have to vote for 21 posts and there is no option like NOTA (non of the above),” he added.