By Our Correspondent
CUTTACK/BHUBANESWAR: Odisha is going to General and Assembly election in 4 phases starting from 13/5/22024. Election will be held in 21 Parliamentary Constituencies and 147 assembly Constituencies in last Four phases. Odisha Police is fully geared up for a smooth, impartial, free & fair elections.
In all, Election will be held in 37,898 Polling Stations at 30,023 locations. There are 1023 Polling Station in the LWE area 11 naxal affected districts.
Interstate Border Check Posts, Inter district border check posts have been in place. 9 Coordination meetings with neighboring states have been held at DGP level.To ensure free & fair and inducement free poll, police has stepped up enforcement Activities.
DGP Arun Sarangi along with Additional DGP (Law and Order) and (Communications), Sanjay Kumar Singh, ADGP, SAP, RP Koche, IGP CID-CB Shefeen Ahamed K. , IGP(Provisioning) , Yatindra Koyal, IGP, BPSPA & Addl. Charge of IGP, CAW & CW, S. Shyni and SP, State Police Headquarters’ Battula Gangadhar discussed about derails preparations.
Since 1st Jan 2024, 33000 warrants have been executed/recalled/disposed off. 39987 PRs under preventive sections of law have been submitted and 47289 persons have been bound down. 7 Persons have been booked under NSA.233 no. of illegal arms have been seized. 112 cartridges, 113 bombs and 1530 no. of explosive seized. 3 illegal arms manufacturing units busted. 4,50,000 ltrs of illegal liquor have been seized, 22000 cases registered and 3428 persons have been arrested. 725 Qtl. of Ganja and 4.5 Kg of Brown Sugar have been seized and 1048 Persons have been arrested.
5000 Acres of Hemp Cultivation destroyed. 3650 litres of Cough Syrup have been seized and 1048 persons arrested. Rs 4.1 crores amount of Cash have been seized. 19 election related cases including MCC violation are under investigation.
For checking at interstate and interdistrict flow of illegal materials, Contraband and unaccounted Cash, 121 Inter-State BCPs and 280 Intra-State BCPs have been functioning. CCTV cameras have been placed in all Interstate BCPs.
After declaration of MCC on 16/3/2024, 737- FSTs, 722-SSTs have been made functional round the clock.
To address LWE problems, LWE Polling Stations have been identified. AN OPS have been stepped up,1264 different types of AN Ops have been launched. From 1.1.2024 , 4 Maoists cadre have been neutralized and 17 cadres have surrendered before police . Huge dumps, 6 Arms have been seized from Maoists.
TRAINING
Police officers, Men, Home Guards and Gram Rakhis associated with election have been trained on election management and election related duty.
The training for police personnel have been monitored by the IG of Police, Training.
SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING
In every district Social Media Monitoring Cell and at state level a Social Media Monitoring & Cyber Security Unit are functioning under the supervision of IG of Police CID-CB.
So far 111 social media related complaints have been received and 350 contents have been taken down/removed. 5 cases have been registered and one person has been arrested. 643 social media handles are under surveillance.
COMMUNICATION
Communication shadow area have been audited and identified. 879 number of locations under mobile network shadow area have been addressed with alternate modes of communications like VHF/ Satellite Phones and runners with motor cycles.
PREPAREDNESS FOR 4th PHASE GE-2024 ON 13.05.2024
4th Phase- 4 PCs and 28 Acs in 9 districts of Ganjam, Berhampur, Gajapati, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Rayagada and Kalahandi are going to Poll.
❖ Number of Polling Stations-7,298
❖ Number of Locations-6,282
❖ Number of LWE affected PSs- 537
DEPLOYMENT
❖ Total Manpower utilized during election-17000
❖ CAPF deployed- 104 Coys
❖ SAP deployed-66 Platoons
Election Related Deployment
❖ Addl SP-29
❖ DSP-57
❖ Inspector-154
❖ SI/ASI-1457
❖ Havildar & Constables-6639
❖ Home Guards & GRs- 5581
❖ Number of Mobile Parties- 600
❖ Inter State Border Check Posts- 51 (CCTV installed)
❖ Intra State Border Check Post-50
❖ Flying Squad Team-210
❖ Static Surveillance Team-195
❖ EVM Strong Rooms at 15 locations have been established being guarded round the clock by CAPF and SAP in a 2-tiered Security System.
❖ In 4th phase, 6 LWE affected districts of Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Nuapada, Kalahandi are going to Poll.
❖ Special Operational arrangements have been launched.
❖ 539 Anti Naxalite Operations in these districts have been launched since 1.1.2024.
❖ 138 Operational parties of CAPF and 37 units of SOG/DVF are in action.
❖ Chhattisgarh state is launching operations in 5 locations whereas Andhra Pradesh is launching 9 operations in the bordering areas.
❖ One Maoist Leader has been neutralized in Nabarangpur district.
❖ To monitor anti LWE initiative in the 4th phase, Addl DG of Police, Operation Sri S. Deva Datta Singh, IPS is camping in LWE affected areas.
Election Related Cases and MCC Violations- 2024
❖ A total of 19 no. of cases registered for MCC violations and election related incidents.
