Security Beefed Up At Uttarakhand Polling Booths

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand is all set for the assembly elections to be held on Monday with the authorities taking special care of security measures by installing CCTV in booths and deploying companies of Central Paramilitary Force (CPMF) and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).

District magistrate Vijay Shankar Pandey said all election teams had been dispatched to their respective constituencies and adequate arrangements had also been made for security. “We got 23 companies of CPMF and 5 companies of PAC, which have been deployed in different assembly constituencies”, said Pandey. “CCTVs have also been installed at many polling stations to ensure that the assembly elections can be monitored accurately,” the district magistrate said. Arrangements were also done for a webcast, he said “under which live pictures of the polling centre will be beamed directly to their control room and. We can see from right here what is going on at the booth.”

District magistrate Vijay Shankar Pandey told ANI that a total of 11 assembly seats and 1,729 booths in the Haridwar district were divided into 33 zonal and 161 super sectors.

The District Magistrate said, “Today from 8:00 am till 12:30 pm, we have dispatched polling parties of 7 constituencies.” He said that in the second meeting, they have kept assemblies like Haridwar, Haridwar Rural, Jwalapur. “This is done to avoid crowding because of COVID-19 pandemic. “When the team from Election Commission came here, they had given special guidelines regarding COVID-19. This time we have sent a complete COVID kit along with the polling team. It has been ensured that every room is sanitized before the election.”