The administration has made elaborate arrangements for the smooth and incident free polling to the Jamshedpur lok Sabha election on Thursday. Apart from the high profile security arrangements the district administration has taken up slew of measures to ensure electorate are not lured by the political parties to sell their votes.
On Wednesday, polling personnel were airlifted to Maoist affected areas in Jamshedpur parliamentary constituency as the East Singhbhum district administration geared up with slew of measures to ensure free and fair poll on Thursday.
According to information a total of 32 poll personnel along with polling materials and dry rations were airlifted from Sonari Aerodrome by a state-owned chopper.
These personnel with serve their duties at Dumuria (booth number 189 and 190) in Potka assembly constituency, Gudabandha (booth number 159, 160 and 161) and Jhantijharna area of Galudih (booth number 78, 79 and 80) both in Ghatshila assembly constituency today.
Moreover, another helicopter also airlifted four polling personnel along with poll materials and dry rations from Chaibasa to Thalkobad (in Saranda) under Manoharpur assembly constituency of Singhbhum constituency.
East Singhbhum deputy commissioner-cum-returning officer for Jamshedpur parliamentary constituency, Amitabh Kaushal said that sensitive and super sensitive booths have been identified in the Assembly areas and security personnel would be deployed accordingly.
"We are confident that the elections will be free and fair and we have finalised every details for the poll," he noted.
Meanwhile, following directive of election commission the administration would be introducing webcasting through tablets at highly sensitive booths and also carry out recording through videography. There are 110 highly sensitive booths in the constituency.
Meanwhile, 800 police personnel of the district will be assisted by jawans of CRPF, Jharkhand Armed Police, homeguards, Rapid Action Police (RAP) and Rapid Action Force for maintaining security at the 1626 polling booths in the constituency.
District excise department has sealed also 37 bar-cum-restaurants and 128 retail wine shops yesterday night. The bars and wine shops will open on April 18.
In addition to this, micro observers have been deputed at polling stations to keep an eye on every movement of the polling agents and on the suspicious characters, if any, at the naxal infested booths and also at urban area booths which are vulnerable from the law and order point of view.