POLLING OFFICERS OF EAST DISTRICT COMPLETE TRAINING

First votes cast for Elections 2014 - 830 assembly, and 834 parliamentary votes submitted through postal ballot

GANGTOK, 09 Apr [IPR]: The third and the final training for the Polling Officers II to VI of East District was completed today at Chintan Bhawan, Gangtok. With this the training of the Presiding and Polling Officers of East District has been completed.

During the training the officials engaged in election duty were provided with the Postal Ballot Papers at Chintan Bhawan and the officials exercised their franchise through the Postal Ballot Facilitation Centers established at Chintan Bhawan. 830 postal ballots were cast for the Assembly Constituencies and 834 postal ballots were cast for the Sikkim Parliamentary Constituency.

Now, the postal ballot Facilitation Center for other employees/officials engaged in election duty will be available at Tashi Namgyal Academy on 10, 11 and 12 April. No Facilitation Center will be available after midnight of 12 April 2014.

Therefore all such employees are requested to exercise their franchise through postal ballots latest by 12 April. Postal Ballots cannot be handed over personally to anybody, even to the Returning Officer. After 12 April 2014 Postal Ballots can be sent to concerned Returning Officer only through unpaid post.

The Returning Officer, East has identified 49 Polling Stations for web casting and the trial for web casting has been completed. Two Polling stations have been identified as Model Polling Stations viz. Sun Pharma Guest House, Ranipool and While Memorial Hall, Zero Point, Gangtok. Directions have been given to the Sector Magistrates for making all necessary arrangements for the Model Polling Stations.