Poll meeting
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 29 2022:
A virtual review meeting of all the District Election Officers and Superintendents of Police of all 11 electoral districts as well as the Deputy Commissioners and SPs of the remaining 5 non electoral districts was held yesterday on the preparedness of the upcoming election.
As per a statement from CEO, Manipur, Deputy Election Commissioner, ECI, Nitesh Vyas and Chief Electoral Officer, Manipur, Rajesh Agrawal were also present during the virtual meeting.
All the DEOs and SPs presented a power point presentation on the preparedness of their respective districts.
With respect to the Covid situation, it was highlighted by all districts that efforts are being made to have all polling personnel vaccinated with double doses before going on poll duty.
Vaccination camps are being opened at the training centres and precautionary doses are being administered to the polling personnel and the election machinery as per protocol, the statement informed.
With regard to EVM/VVPAT, the 1st randomization of EVM/VVPAT has started with the participation of political parties in the districts and it will be completed by February 1, 2022 and the 2nd randomization will begin from February 14, followed by commissioning of the machines.
The statement added that the New Symbol Loading Units (SLU) will be used for loading of the symbols on pilot basis in Manipur during the commissioning and the process can be seen by political party representatives through TV screens to be installed in the Commissioning Hall.
Further, CEO Manipur informed that distribution and collection of postal ballots to PwD and 80 plus electors have been in progress since the announcement of polls and so far 42,939 Form-12-D have been distributed to them, out of which 2980 persons have submitted.
The ECI has also appointed expenditure observers, 12 for the first phase and 8 for the 2nd.The statement also informed that a virtual conference on 'Accessible and Inclusive Elections' involving all CSOs, NGOs working in the field of PwD, will be held on February 2, 2022 to scale up awareness on accessibility measures.