3 floating polling stations on Dal Lake

New Delhi, August 16

To ensure “no voter is left behind” in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission will set up three floating polling stations on the Dal Lake and one along the LoC to “exclusively” serve an area that has 100 per cent ST population.

Announcing the schedule for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said the intent to set up these “unique” polling stations was to ensure accessibility in otherwise unreachable areas. For the three floating polling stations on the Dal Lake, the polling team are taken on ferries and shikaras.

“One of the three polling stations, Khar Mohalla Aabi Karpora, has only three voters,” Kumar said.

The Koragbal polling station in the Gurez assembly constituency is situated along the LoC between Indian and Pakistani territories. “It exclusively serves a 100 per cent Scheduled Tribe (ST) population. In the Lok Sabha elections, the polling station had recorded a voter turnout of 80.01 per cent,” he said.Seemari is the first polling station in Kupwara district. — PTI