Complaints are about the lack of basic facilities at the place where they have to live.
More than four lakh government employees and school and college teachers, who have been entrusted with election duty, are expecting better facilities in polling stations, which will be handed over on April 6, the day before the voting.
Complaints about the availability of food at the time of polling in the place where they have to stay, the availability of food near the polling station, the remote location of the station in case of absence of transport services are among the factors for accepting polling duty. I am reluctant, he says.
JACTTO-GEO g. One of Venkatesan’s co-ordinators says: “Although they are eligible for a postal vote after a polling station has been handed over the day before polling day, they are usually busy figuring out where they reach. Can. ” . In their hectic, some of them do not receive their postal votes. There should be a system in which they are given a letter on voting duty only after casting their postal vote. “
A teacher at a women’s college in the city says that the lack of washroom facilities and housing near the polling station is often the reason why many women employees are not expected to be assigned for election duty.
Another government employee states that most of them are over 50 years of electoral duty and have high blood pressure and diabetes. “Naturally, they have to eat on time. Instead of paying money, packets of breakfast and lunch could be made available to them through the local bodies on the day of polling. Local police stations can take care of the needs of all police personnel deployed in their jurisdiction. “
“The Transport Department should operate special night service buses after the last bus for polling staff, so that they are not abandoned after handing over EVMs and VVPATs to police personnel,” he says.
When Hindu Contacted the Chief Electoral Officer Satyavrat Sahu, he said: “We are very cautious on this. From time to time, we have been instructing our election machinery that minimum facilities, as the Commission wishes, should be provided. It is non-negotiable and we are ensuring that. “
“Even after that, if there are some cases or if some deviations are noticed, then we will be strict in this. We will ensure that all the facilities provided by the Commission are made available to the people involved in the election work. “
After his postal vote was cast only after the government employees were allowed to proceed on polling duty, as some of them have not been able to collect them on time, Mr. Sahu said government officials have been entrusted with election duty . .
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