EC reviews poll preparedness

A team of Election Commission of India reviewed poll preparedness in the state on Monday. The team held a meeting with the Divisional Commissioners, IG (Police Range), Deputy Commissioners-cum-DEOs, Police Commissioners, SPs, MC Commissioners, General Observers, Police Observers and Expenditure Observers of 11 districts in Gurugram. The team included Deputy Election Commissioner Hridesh Kumar, Secretary KP Singh, Principal

Secretary Avinash Kumar and SB Joshi.

The team took an account of the administrative, logistics, law and order, and election-related arrangements with the Chief Electoral Officer and state police nodal officer. The commission had directed the officers to ensure the conduct of free and fair elections by maintaining good law and order situation. It had stressed on maintaining good health of the electoral roll with the removal of dead and shifted voters.

Further, it directed to provide minimum assured facility at the pooling booths, along with conducive environment to encourage voter turnout.