Our Correspondent
Impal, Feb. 6 (EMN): All polling stations at Singjamei, a constituency in Manipur’s Imphal West district will be manned by female staff only in the ensuing first phase of the Manipur Assembly elections. There are 29 polling stations in Singjamei Assembly constituency.
Deputy Commissioner Th Kirankumar Singh, who is the District Election Officer (DEO) of Imphal West district accompanied by SP Kshetrimayum Shivakanta of Imphal West District, made an announcement in this regard while briefing media recently.
Election Commission of India had reportedly said that at least one polling station in each assembly constituency would be exclusively managed by women personnel in a bid to encourage women voters.
Interestingly, the present Speaker Yumnam Khemchand of the Manipur Legislative Assembly is seeking re-election from the Singjamei Assembly Constituency.
DEO Kirankumar also informed that two polling stations in every constituency in the district which have 530 polling stations under 13 Assembly Constituencies will be manned only by females. This time, all the election training was also imparted by women.
So far 3,77,290 electors including 90 transgender and 3304 persons with disabilities, were enrolled for Imphal West district, and the enrolment ratio is 1099 females per thousand males, he said adding that there is good sign of democracy as the number of electoral rolls have been increased amongst first time voters.
He also said that the health status of all the staff on election duty will be screened properly and Covid-19 vaccination is compulsory for them.
Unlike previous elections, this time instead of using loudspeakers during departure of polling personnel for their respective polling stations, colour-coded vehicles will be utilised for easy identification while transporting the polling personnel to their respective polling stations within the district, he added.
Sharing the security measures in the district, SP Shivakanta informed that five companies of Central Armed Police Force have already arrived in the state and they have started patrolling, area domination, and confidence building exercises from the past few days.