By Our Correspondent
JHARSUGUDA/BHUBANESWAR: : 9.75% votes polled in Jharsuguda bypolls by 9 am, said State Election Commission office said.
About 2,21,719 Voters are participating in the Jharsuguda Bypolls in Odisha on Wednesday which consists of 1,10,619 males, 1,11,037 females and 63 Trans genders and 249 service voter, 2534 PWD Voters. BJD’s Deepali Das. BJP’s Tankadhar Tripathy and Congress’s Tarun Pandey are among 9 candidates in fray.
Mock Poll was started at 5.30 a.m. followed by Polling at 7.00 AM amid tight security. Two-hourly voting turn out report will be released for information of public. Poll is going to be held in 253 booths in 197 locations.
A total of 1814 Police personnel (including 155 Police Officers, 17 platoon of Armed Police, 323 Havildars/Constables and 205 Home Guards) and 07 companies of CAPF are being deployed for the Poll. CAPF is being deployed in 144 nos. of booths.
Special arrangement for P.w.D Voters :For transportation of PwD Voters from their houses to booth and back, 2539 Vahan passes have been issued. 118 Auto rickshaws have been arranged. Also ramps, separate queue, @ 2 Volunteers per booth with 253 wheelchairs have been arranged.
Postal Ballot for absentee voters : 330 Absentee voters in the category of senior citizen and PWD had obtained for postal ballot of which 321 have given vote for postal ballot and 3 are dead, 6 found absent after 3rd visit of the polling party.
Model Booths & Pink Booths: 40 Model Booths with facilities like Ramp, Temp. shed, separate queues, Drinking water, Volunteers for P w D and Sr. Citizens etc. will be operating on the Poll day. Similarly 26 Pink booths especially in urban areas totally manned by Trained lady Polling Officers will be opened.
Critical Booths : Basing upon the field inputs, 116 Critical booths have been identified in 69 locations. Special arrangement has been done for such booths. In all 253 booths Web casting has been planned. 69 Micro Observers will be deployed and extra CAPF deployment will be done in appropriate locations. Political party have also given their worry list. Accordingly, the deployment have been planned.
