East Godavari district administration has identified 722 hyper-sensitive and 714 sensitive polling stations and made elaborate arrangements to prevent untoward incidents during the general elections due on May 7.
In all, elections will be conducted in 4,056 polling booths in the district, for which 34,841 staff including 24,779 polling personnel have already been engaged. As many as 520 micro-observers, 354 sectoral officers, 4,000 police personnel, 3,000 drivers and cleaners, 750 videographers and over 3,000 engineering students (on webcasting duty) will be on the polls duties in the district.
Collector Neetu Prasad on Sunday said that votes could cast their vote by using any one of the 10 identity proofs listed out by the Election Commission, adding that ration card would not be considered as identity proof . She said that all the liquor shops in the district will remain closed from 6 p.m. on May 5 to 6 p.m. on May 7.
