Tuesday , December 24 2024

Chief Electoral Officer inspected booths with low voting percentage in Chatra district

Chatra, July 2 (HS). Chief Election Officer K. Ravi Kumar on Tuesday inspected half a dozen booths with low voting percentage in Mayurhand block and Pratappur block of Simaria and Chatra assembly constituencies of Chatra district. He first inspected the nationalized Manjhgawan booth number 321 of Mayurhand block. He also took information from the BLO of the booth about the low voting percentage here.

The Chief Electoral Officer learned in detail about the dead, duplicate and shifted category voters under the booth. He said that the assembly elections are near. In such a situation, there is very little time left to correct any error in the voter list. Therefore, he instructed that all level officers and employees involved in the revision work of the voter list should correct all types of errors in a campaign mode. Instructions were also given to complete the work of updating coloured photographs in place of unclear and black and white photographs 100% of the time.

After this, he also visited Government Middle School Mayurhand Booth No. 280, newly created Primary School Parasi Booth No. 286, Upgraded Middle School Manhari Booth No. 292. During this, the Chief Electoral Officer also planted a sapling in the premises of Upgraded Middle School Manhari Booth No. 292.

During this, Sub-Divisional Officer Chatra Surendra Oraon, Sub-Divisional Officer Simaria Sunny Raj, Deputy Election Officer Vedwanti Kumari, Block Development Officer Mayurhand Manish Kumar, District Public Relations Officer Shakeel Ahmed along with supervisors of all the concerned booths, BLOs and local people were present.