For the successful conduct of the Bermo Assembly bye-election, polling personnel proceeded towards their respective polling stations from Bokaro Ispat Senior Secondary School, Sector-1/B, to conduct polling enthusiastically.
During their proceedings, District Election Officer-cum- Deputy Commissioner Rajesh Singh and other senior officials of the district gave good wishes to all the polling personnel, who left for the polling station to conduct a successful and fair polling here on Monday.
Election officer cum sub-divisional officer of Bermo Assembly, Bermo Tenughat Anant Kumar said in a press conference that there are 312507 voters in the entire constituency, who will exercise their franchise, out of which 148017 are female voters and 164194 are male voters.
A total of 468 polling stations are there, the number of old booths was 356, but 112 new polling stations have been built in the Corona era and all new polling stations will operate in 234 buildings.
The entire constituency has been placed in a cluster while 51 sectors are divided. There are 100 highly sensitive booths, 255 sensitive and 113 general booths, of which the number of disabled voters is 4887 and the number of voters above the age of 80 years about 2620, added SDM, Bermo
The number of model booths is 31, while 2343 voters have exercised their voting by postal ballot and disabled and elderly voters will exercise their vote at the polling station. The total number of candidates is 16 and two EVMs will be used for NOTA.
Four (04) model code of conduct has been imposed in the entire constituency, in which two cases have been registered against Congress, one against BJP and one against others, said the SDM.
Kumar informed that action has been taken against thousands of people to maintain peace in the entire assembly constituency. He appealed to voters to vote fearlessly and all effective arrangements have been made at all booths to avoid COVID-19.
He informed that the guidelines regarding COVID-19 have been issued by the Election Commission for Bermo by-election, which is to be followed by all. He informed that roundabout has been made at all polling stations at a distance of 6-6 feet to comply with SOP and all the polling stations have been sanitized, added the SDM.