Poll phases
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, December 22 2011:
The forthcoming 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly Elections which are likely to be conducted during the month of February 2012 may be divided into two phases.
Official sources said that the schedule of the elections would be notified during last week of December and it may be conducted separately for hills and valley districts.
Elections for the hill districts of the State are likely to conduct in the first phase and for valley districts in the second phase.
234 polling stations would be utilised across the State and the Police Head-quarter has already been submitted the deployment plan of security forces to the Election Commission of India.
An estimation of 325 companies of central paramilitary forces would be required in the forthcoming elections, the official sources added.