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District Election Officer and Collector S. Kandasamy connected Monday said that 73 delicate booths located successful 55 polling stations person been identified crossed the district.
Addressing the media astatine the Collectorate here, helium said a full of 2,379 polling booths person been established successful 984 polling stations crossed the 8 Assembly constituencies successful the territory for the April 23 Assembly election. “To guarantee transparency and security, webcasting cameras person been installed some wrong and extracurricular each polling booths for real-time monitoring,” helium said.
Arrangements person besides been made to safely cod and store voters’ mobile phones extracurricular the polling stations, with provisions to instrumentality them aft the voting process is completed.
Mr. Kandasamy said capable Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines person been distributed to each constituencies, portion capable reserve machines person besides been retained to conscionable immoderate contingency requirements during polling. A full of 11,420 polling unit and 125 micro observers person been appointed to guarantee creaseless behaviour of polling, helium added.
The Collector said 72 flying squads and 72 static surveillance teams were operating circular the timepiece connected a rotational ground crossed the territory to show Model Code of Conduct.
Unaccounted currency to the tune of ₹1.59 crore was seized during conveyance checks and surveillance. In addition, liquor worthy ₹3.47 lakh, narcotic substances valued astatine ₹28.22 lakh, golden and metallic articles worthy ₹52 lakh, and different goods and freebies valued astatine ₹5.44 lakh person besides been confiscated. The full worth of seizures stands astatine ₹2.49 crore. Of the currency seized, ₹1.50 crore has been released aft owed verification, helium said.
