GUWAHATI: The procedure to categorize polling stations as "critical" has moved clear of taking a look at previous record of violence to assessing the opportunity of electorate being influenced.
On the root of this new type of evaluate, 59 vital polling stations had been known in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district, which comes below Jalukbari, Dispur and Gauhati West assembly segments of the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency.
"Earlier, polling stations would be categorized as 'hyper-sensitive' or 'sensitive'. The concept has changed now. Under the new rules, a polling station with 75% turnout or more where one candidate gets 90% of the votes or more is considered critical," further deputy commissioner Nibedan Das Patowary mentioned.
"A polling station may have a record of peaceful elections, but it is these statistics that will decide its status," he added.
If areas below a polling station have a record of a piece of electorate influencing weaker segment to make a choice a specific candidate, the booth will likely be marked "critical". Sources mentioned distance, terrain and insurgency also are factors being considered to identify vital polling booths.
In addition, a few polling stations positioned along the hilly terrain bifurcating the Assam-Meghalaya border close to the town also are being marked vital for the third section of Lok Sabha election in Assam on Tuesday.
Though technical difficulties avoided the election authorities from webcasting the activities of all vital polling stations at the election days in Assam this time, district administrations are trying to deploy ok safety group of workers for clean behavior of elections.
Officials in the office of the executive electoral officer (CEO), Assam, told IdealNews that 2,000 vital polling stations around the state were decided on for webcasting at the polling days this Lok Sabha elections.
"Through webcasting, the CEO office based in Guwahati and EC office in New Delhi monitors the activities in selected critical polling stations live on the polling days. Due to some technical difficulties, however, all critical polling stations could not be brought under webcasting radar. Nevertheless, with adequate security arrangements in those polling stations, we are hopeful of conducting the third phase election smoothly on Tuesday," mentioned joint CEO, Assam, Pankaj Chakraborty.
On the root of this new type of evaluate, 59 vital polling stations had been known in Kamrup (Metropolitan) district, which comes below Jalukbari, Dispur and Gauhati West assembly segments of the Gauhati Lok Sabha constituency.
"Earlier, polling stations would be categorized as 'hyper-sensitive' or 'sensitive'. The concept has changed now. Under the new rules, a polling station with 75% turnout or more where one candidate gets 90% of the votes or more is considered critical," further deputy commissioner Nibedan Das Patowary mentioned.
"A polling station may have a record of peaceful elections, but it is these statistics that will decide its status," he added.
If areas below a polling station have a record of a piece of electorate influencing weaker segment to make a choice a specific candidate, the booth will likely be marked "critical". Sources mentioned distance, terrain and insurgency also are factors being considered to identify vital polling booths.
In addition, a few polling stations positioned along the hilly terrain bifurcating the Assam-Meghalaya border close to the town also are being marked vital for the third section of Lok Sabha election in Assam on Tuesday.
Though technical difficulties avoided the election authorities from webcasting the activities of all vital polling stations at the election days in Assam this time, district administrations are trying to deploy ok safety group of workers for clean behavior of elections.
Officials in the office of the executive electoral officer (CEO), Assam, told IdealNews that 2,000 vital polling stations around the state were decided on for webcasting at the polling days this Lok Sabha elections.
"Through webcasting, the CEO office based in Guwahati and EC office in New Delhi monitors the activities in selected critical polling stations live on the polling days. Due to some technical difficulties, however, all critical polling stations could not be brought under webcasting radar. Nevertheless, with adequate security arrangements in those polling stations, we are hopeful of conducting the third phase election smoothly on Tuesday," mentioned joint CEO, Assam, Pankaj Chakraborty.
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