Madurai
Training for personnel to be deployed on duty at polling stations in Madurai district for the upcoming assembly elections was held at 10 centers across the district on Saturday.
Training was provided at one center in each of the 10 constituencies under the respective Returning Officers.
District Election Officer and Collector T. Ambalagan oversaw the training sessions held at Sethupathi Higher Secondary School and Holy Family Girls Higher Secondary School.
A total of 18,509 personnel, who will be posted as Presiding Officers and Polling Officers, received training.
There will be around 3,800 polling stations across the district for the upcoming election.
The training session included videos on the performance of voting personnel duties and training on the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs). Officials said that special attention was paid to the use of voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) which would be used in all polling stations in this election.
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