South prepped for polls

NAMCHI, 11 Apr [IPR]: Returning Officer South, Prabhakar Verma informs that the election event of distribution of polling materials and dispatch of polling teams to the 154 Polling stations of South District took place in a smooth and peaceful manner. He added that the teams reached their respective polling stations without any disturbance.

With regard to few imperative features of Polling Stations in South District, the RO informed that the farthest Polling Station in the district is 81 kms which is Sokpey under Tumin Lingee constituency.

The constituencies having the highest number of Polling Stations in South Sikkim are Namthang Rateypani and Tumin Lingee with 22 polling stations each and the constituency with the fewest is Rangang Yangang with only 14 polling stations, informed the R.O. He further said that the constituency with no record of critical polling stations is Tumin Lingee while Rangang Yangang and Namthang Rateypani have 4 and 5 critical polling stations respectively.

While informing about the Web-Casting service to capture polling activities taking place in South Sikkim, Mr. Verma said that this service is provided in 8 polling stations under Namchi Singhithang constituency, 3 under Temi Namphing and 2 under Rangang Yangang.

The Returning Officer also informed that out of 1700 forms, 12 for postal ballot have been received by the office of South District Election while 1692 has been submitted so far by the South District voters.