New Delhi: Increasing his preparations for assembly polls in five countries due early next year, the election commission Wednesday Wednesday reviewing further planning with the head of Goa Head, Manipur, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh.
While the provisions of the Goa legislature, Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand are scheduled to end on different dates on March 2022, the term assembly over ends in May.
Five assembly polls can be held together early next year.
The preliminary meeting on Wednesday focused on various thematic problems including the minimum facilities guaranteed above, and people with disabilities.
Covid Mitigation Plans, Training staff of polls and extensive voter outreach is one of the other problems discussed, according to an official statement.
The head of Sushil Chandra’s commissioner election in his speech said transparency and impartiality were the characteristics of the selection process.
He noted that problems and challenges may differ in every state, but the planning of the election needs to have a voter-centric approach and participatory decision making involving all stakeholders.
During his speech, CEC emphasized the importance of the purity of the scroll selection and asked the CEO for quick recovery of all the applications delayed for voter registration.
He also emphasized the rationalization of polling stations that followed the Covid pandemic and reaffirmed the need to have basic facilities and infrastructure in all polling stations.
Chandra said all the challenges of logistics in the implementation of postal vote facilities for senior citizens and persons with disabilities need to be identified and resolved for its smooth and transparent implementation during elections.
The Commissioner of the Election of Anup Chandra Pandey, while interacting with the CEO, emphasizing that periodic and comprehensive monitoring in every aspect of the selection must be carried out by the CEO of all weed countries.
He highlighted the need to activate the basic level selection machine in five countries to start preparation.