ECI urged to avoid usage of glue for election posters on walls of schools

Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, the Tamil Nadu Elementary School Teachers’ Federation (TNESTF) has raised interest regarding the upkeep of acquisition institutions utilized arsenic polling stations

In a petition to the Madurai District Collector and District Election Officer K.J. Praveen Kumar, P. Srinivasan, territory caput of the TNESTF, highlighted from past elections a recurring contented of harm caused to schoolhouse infrastructure by the methods utilized to show campaigner information.

Government, government-aided, and backstage self-financing schools crossed the territory are routinely converted into polling booths connected predetermination day. Under existent protocol, assorted notices, including the mandatory database of contesting candidates, are pasted connected the beforehand walls of these classrooms utilizing beardown adhesives oregon gum to guarantee they are disposable to voters.

The federation said erstwhile the elections were over, the clean-up had near a lasting scar.

“When the predetermination process concludes and schoolhouse administrations effort to region these posters, the vibrant, colorful walls of our classrooms suffer their archetypal condition,” it said.

“The residue from the gum and the consequent scraping required to cleanable the surfaces efficaciously defaces the schools.”

The TNESTF urged the territory medication to determination distant from accepted glue-and-post methods.

Instead of imperishable oregon damaging adhesives, they requested that the District Election Officer see due alternate measures for the 2026 polls

Suggestions from akin administrative units successful different regions antecedently included the usage of freestanding show boards, adhesive-free hanging systems utilizing existing fixtures and removable painter’s tape.