like the lok Sabha elections 39 model booths equipped with facilities like drinking water, ramp, toilet, soft drinks, shed, chair, flowers and sitting arrangements are ready to welcome voters for the Assembly polls in Ranchi constituency scheduled on Tuesday.
On the eve of polling day booth officers were seen drawing the symbol of the political parties on the black board. Sweepers were found cleaning the entrance of some booths. For the specially-abled voters, staffs were busy arranging wheel chairs.
Governor Syed Ahmed and Director General of Police Rajiv Kumar apart from several other officers will be casting their votes at Shree Krishna Institute of Public Administration (SKIPA). Residents were seen collecting voter slips at booth number 14 and 15, set up at SKIPA.
At St Francis School, Harmu where Chief Minister Hemant Soren along with his wife Kalpana Soren will be voting was seen inspected by a troop of policemen and college teachers.
In Indian Red Cross Society, rooms were being refurbished to welcome voters including Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court and number of other VVIP bvoters like Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi Vinay Cahubey. The workers were being directed to make sure the place is dirt-free.
"We are arranging a wheelchair to assist disabled voters," a female booth-officer stated. The area around the ramp was locked but the staffs assured to open it early in the morning for the convenience of disabled voters.
SS Memorial College at Kanke wherein four such booths are marked, the entrance gate was decorated. A poster mentioned that all the booths are Model Booths.
Officers said that there was no clean place to sit or sleep. "Aaj toh raat bhar macchhar kaatne wale hai (Mosquitoes are going to trouble us whole night),"said a polling officer lighting up mosquito repellents.
While the Ranchi Assembly constituency has 39 Model Booths, Silli has five, Hatia has 64 and Kanke has 38 Model booths. The ECI, through the concept of Model, Booths, is trying to attract more and more voters to the polling booths.
Officials said that the arrangements at Model Booths would be better than the lok Sabha elections, when a number of such booths were found to be in a pathetic state due to mismanagement at the booth level.