30 companies of CAPF arrives for poll duty
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Thirty companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) have arrived within the State forward of the April 6 Assembly elections. Kerala has positioned a request for 150 companies this time, a majority of which might be deployed in vital and weak areas of the State.
The deployment of Central forces are being finalised by a committee consisting of the Chief Electoral Officer, State police nodal officer and State CAPF coordinator to make sure optimum and neutral use of the forces.
This time, the quantity of polling stations within the State has shot up by 89.65% over the 2016 Assembly polls as a result of an Election Commission of India (ECI) directive in view of COVID-19 to restrict the quantity of electors per sales space to 1,000.
(*30*) might be 40,771 stations in all, in comparison with 21,498 in 2016. All the polling stations might be on the bottom flooring of the constructing.
In all, 2,67,31,509 voters had figured within the last voters’ listing printed by the fee on January 21. Of this, 1,37,79,263 are ladies, 1,29,52,025 are males and 221 are transgender individuals. First-time voters aged 18 and 19 quantity 2,99,258. The supplementary listing of voters might be printed 10 days earlier than the withdrawal of nominations.
Recently, Chief Electoral Officer Teeka Ram Meena had kicked off the vaccination for election officers. It is estimated that round three lakh officers might be inoculated forward of the elections.
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