Hazaribagh district administration has completed all the preparations for peaceful and smooth counting of votes of the Assembly poll. For Hazaribagh and Mandu Assembly segments local marketing yard has been made strong room while for Barkattha and Barhi constituency RNYM College, Barhi, has been converted into strong room.
At Hazaribagh and Barhi EVMs have been kept and on December 23rd at the same venues counting of votes will take place. On both venues triple layered security arrangement has been made. More than 500 jawans of central paramilitary forces have been deployed in the security of strong rooms and they are keeping a close eye on every activity inside the campus. Inside the campus only administrative officials and representatives of candidates are allowed to go.
On the other hand the district administration has made other preparations too for smooth counting. Returning Officer DC Sunil Kumar said that for Hazaribagh and Mandu constituencies counting will take place on 28tables each while for Barhi 22 tables and for Barkattha 24 tables have been prepared. After 15-16 round of counting results of all four constituencies will become clear.
There were 393 booths in Hazaribagh Sadar constituency and here more than 2.2 lakhs voters had used their right to choose their representative for Jharkhand assembly. In Mandu on 403 booths more than 2.28 lakhs voters had used their franchise to elect their representative. On 359 booths of Barkattha assembly segment about 1.78 lakhs voters had casted their vote while in Barhi on 331 booths about 1.73 lakhs voters had pressed the buttons of EVMs to choose their representative.
For counting work the district administration has allotted duty to 396 employees of different departments. On 12th December they were given the first round of training and on Friday 19th they will get the second phase of training for the work allotted to them. On 21st final training will be given to them and then they will have to report at 6 a.m. in their respective counting centers and halls.
DC Sunil Kumar said that this time they have especially built a corridor for the movement of EVMs from the strong room to the counting hall. In the meeting with the candidates/representatives all necessary instructions had already been given and requisite papers have been supplied to them.