Officers directed to be ready for three tier panchayat election in a review meeting.

Chamoli: On Saturday, a review meeting held to the preparations for three-tier panchayat elections under the chairmanship of District Election Officer Sandeep Tiwari.

DM, Tiwari has instructed the officials to complete all the preparations for the smooth and successful conduct of the elections, and also, the officials of the road related departments were instructed to make necessary arrangements to keep the roads smooth during the elections and for the movement of polling parties.

District Election Officer has also directed the Block Development Officers and RO and ordered to complete the arrangements for housing, electricity, drinking water and other arrangements at the polling stations on the time. For the smooth execution of the nomination process, RO and ARO were also instructed to study the rules and resolve all their doubts during training and provide the list of necessary documents to the candidates along with the nomination papers. The District Election Officer also instructed all the officers and personnel deployed in the elections to be present in the meetings as required.

Dr. Abhishek Tripathi, chief development officer, in the meeting, gathering information about the preparations, directed all the Block Development Officers to check the ballot boxes as well as other election material and submit the demand for the required material on time and provide the list of centers requiring laborers to deliver the material to polling stations located at a longer distance by road. He also asked the NIC officials to upload all the orders related to the three-tier Panchayat elections online on time.

He also instructed to complete the preparations on time by checking the arrangements of cameras and network for voting and counting of votes. After the meeting, training was also given to ROs and AROs posted in the district under the chairmanship of Project Officer Anand Singh Bhakuni.