Imphal East prepares for LS polls
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, March 23 2024:
A session for Election Expenditure Monitoring in respect of Imphal East district was held at DC Imphal East complex with DC cum DEO Khumanthem Daina in the chair on Saturday.
The session was also attended by Imphal East SP K Meghachandra, additional SP Pramesh Arambam and officials of Flying Squads Team (FST) and Static Surveillance Team (SST) .
The session mainly dwelt on role and responsibilities of FST and SST for ensuring free and fair conduct of the upcoming Lok Sabha election with the officials concerned advised to furnish daily reports on time.
During the session, the DEO stressed the need for collective efforts of law enforcing agencies to tackle Model Code of Conduct violators.
Additional SP Pramesh Arambam said that district police have already started rounding up violators just after enforcement of Model Code of Conduct and sought help of SST in this regard.
He also said that SST needs to report about violation of Model Code of Conduct as well as about expenditure monitoring in time with video recording.
Election Expenditure Monitoring, Imphal East nodal officer Maisnam Chanu Liklainu explained about the role of Vigil and Election Seizure Management System (ESMS) in the 18th Lok Sabha election.
She also demonstrated how ESMS could be downloaded.
The session also discussed in details the challenges of FST and SST and distributed ID and camera to FST and SST officials.
More than 60 FST and SST officials attended the session.