Coimbatore: 6,192 employees will be deployed to conduct elections for City Corporation, Commissioner of King Gopal Sunkara said after holding a meeting with representatives of political parties on Friday to tell them about the guidelines issued by the State Election Commission.
“All steps take place to conduct urban local agencies in a fair and transparent way,” said Gopal Sunkara King.
He said 15 flying teams had been formed to examine violations of selection rules, standard operating procedures for Covid-19 and bribed voters.
They will monitor all the time.
Complaints received from the public through the control room established in the main building Corporation will be forwarded to the team.
“Members of the flying team have been identified to take strict action on violators.
In terms of the appropriate Covid-19-appropriate behavior violations, the teams have been instructed to order violators based on part 188 from IPC and disaster management laws.
The teams are deployed Start today and so on, “King Gopal Sunkara said.
He said that the 2011 census and restrictions were carried out in 2018, 50 wards were allocated for women, including five wards for scheduled caste.
Fifty Ward has been allocated for the general category, including five wards for scheduled caste.
There are 1,290 polling booths in 32 voting stations.
Of the 1,290 booth, 169 has been identified as sensitive by city police.
Additional facilities such as streaming web will be done on sensitive booths, Commissioners say.
A total of 15, 61,819 voters, including 7,81,379 women and 297 third gender voters, will choose their representatives in the city.
1,548 control units and 3,612 voting machines will be used for voting.
Similarly, 105 zonal teams have been formed.
The team will install a voting machine in the poll and shift them into the counting room after the vote ended, Commissioner added.
169 sensitive polling booth identified
