Chandigarh: The projection of a large surge in omicron cases during January-February – when the electoral activity will sway full at Punjab – having a commission of the election of the country who is worried and has attracted an action plan to fight the possibility of threats.
A high-level team of the Indian Election Election Commission (ECI), which consisted of Commissioner of the Main Election (CEC) Sushil Chandra and the Election Commissioner of Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey, arrived at Chandigarh for a two-day visit on Wednesday to take stock of preparedness polls in the country The front of the election of the Punjab.
The commission team also consists of three commissioner deputies, Chandra Bhushan Kumar, Nitesh Vyas and T Sreekanth, in addition to Director General of Sheyphali B Sharan.
Punjab has become one of the worst countries with a virus that claims 16,622 lives and infects 6.03,780 people.
The Omicron variant of Covid spreads at an unprecedented speed and is expected to exceed the delta strain distributed at the beginning of next year.
With polls pose threats to accelerate the spread of cases, the State General Election Commission and Health Authority in Punjab face twin challenges from the smooth behavior of elections by maintaining the spread of the virus.
Aggressive campaigns and mass mobilization of society by political parties in many countries – Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West West and Assam – who went to the early election this year when the new variant did not even appear in cases.
Ending Omicron Causes of Concern, Head of Head Election (CEO), Punjab, Karuna Raju stated that they had learned lessons from elections held in various states earlier this year and took the right steps to ensure that the situation was not repeated in punjab.
The Commission has launched a special training for all district level officials where they are trained about election behavior during the Covid period by focusing on ensuring the appropriate behavior of Covid.
Raju said about 25,000 booths in the state will be provided with masks, sanitisers, gloves and PPE kits.
All voters will be screened on the entry and the number of people in the polling booth will not be more than the number set.
There will be a separate entrance gate and out and a special team will be placed at the booth to enforce the guidelines.
The medical team will also be deployed for thermal scanning and examination.
Each selector that has a body temperature is more than the allowed limit to be isolated and is not permitted to choose with others.
They will get the chance to choose in the end after wearing a PPE kit.
The zero tolerance of the Commission has urged political parties to take part in the safety guidelines framed by the Ministry of Health in letters and spirits.
It has regularly held a meeting with representatives of political parties to make them aware of the protocol.
“Those who are found to violate will be shot under the relevant parts of the Pandemic Action,” Raju said, WH confirmed that no one would survive.
Scientific disposal of the state selection commission is in the process of binding with the Punjab Pollusial Control Agency (PPCB) for scientific disposal of biomedical waste which is full of viruses – masks, gloves and PPE kits.
He said that the waste produced would be collected, transported, treated and discarded by the council team which had five general biomedical waste treatment facilities – each in Mohali, Ludhiana, Muktsar, Pathankot and Amritsar.