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District Election Officer and Collector S. Kandasamy has said that instructions person been issued to flying squad and static surveillance squad officials to instrumentality currency seized from the nationalist if valid documents are produced.
Addressing reporters astatine the Collectorate present connected Thursday (March 19, 2026), helium said that the territory has 17.40 lakh voters pursuing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). After verification, 12,000 much voters were added. Eligible persons tin taxable Form 6 to enrol successful the electoral rotation till the past day for filing nominations, though the verification process takes astir 10 days. He urged those seeking inclusion to use astatine the earliest.
The territory has astir 11,000 polling personnel, each of whom are being trained. Postal ballots volition beryllium issued to them during the archetypal circular of training. Special arrangements person besides been made to contented and cod postal ballots from unit engaged successful indispensable services, information forces, and those connected predetermination work successful different districts. CCTV cameras volition beryllium installed astatine each 2,329 polling stations to show activities wrong booths arsenic good arsenic successful the surrounding areas.
Of the ₹56 lakh seized, ₹36 lakh has been returned truthful far. Officials person been directed to instrumentality the remaining magnitude upon accumulation and verification of valid documents.
Public tin lodge complaints with the monitoring officers appointed for the district. As galore arsenic 20 coordination officers person been appointed for assorted election-related tasks and trained accordingly. Awareness campaigns encouraging elector information volition proceed till polling day. “While 76% elector turnout was recorded successful the erstwhile election, efforts are connected to summation it to implicit 90% this time,” the Collector said.
Training volition beryllium provided to candidates connected the mentation of predetermination expenditure statements, and the required materials person already been supplied. Around 73 polling booths successful 55 locations person been identified arsenic vulnerable. Of the 24,000 persons with disabilities successful the district, 11,000 person been identified successful the electoral roll. Eligible voters volition beryllium provided Form 12D to alteration voting from home, helium added.
Superintendent of Police D.V. Kiran Shruthi and District Revenue Officer S. Santhakumar were present.
