Madurai district administration scouts for alternative venues to set up counting centre during Assembly polls

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District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar and Police Commissioner J. Loganathan inspecting the counting centre successful  Madurai connected  Tuesday.

District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar and Police Commissioner J. Loganathan inspecting the counting centre successful Madurai connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

With the Madras High Court directing the the Election Commission and Tamil Nadu Government to spare the Government Madurai Medical College buildings from being utilized arsenic a ballot counting centre for elections, Madurai territory medication has started to scout for caller buildings to acceptable up counting centres for the 10 Assembly constituencies successful the territory during the enusing Assembly election.

Madurai District Election Officer and District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, on with Madurai City Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan, and District Superintendent of Police B.K. Arvind, inspected six assemblage buildings crossed the territory connected Tuesday.

The pupil leaders of Madurai Medical College had objected to mounting up counting centre connected their assemblage premises arsenic the month-long information arrangment made during the 2024 Parliamentary predetermination caused overmuch inconvenience to students.

The officials inspected the Agricultural College and Research Institute astatine Othakadai, Government Arts and Science College astatine Kappalur, and connected Anna University Regional field astatine Keelakuyilkudi, Thiagarajar College of Engineering astatine Tirupparankundram, Madura College and Tamil Nadu Government Polytechnic College successful Madurai West taluk.

The officials inspected the buildings and studied the feasibility of mounting up abstracted counting centre for each of the Assembly constituencies, the beardown rooms stocking physics voting machines, beardown rooms for keeping postal ballots, chambers for Election Observer and Returning Officers and the basal infrastructure connected the premises.

The officials looked astatine the casual question of dense vehicles wrong the assemblage premises for taking EVMs aft polling to the beardown rooms of the respective counting centre.

Usilampatti sub-collector Utkarsh Kumar, Revenue Divisional Officers Karunakaran (Madurai), Sangeetha (Melur), and M. Sivajothi (Tirumangalam) were present.

Published - December 16, 2025 07:23 p.m. IST

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