The Election Commission has introduced a single-window system to facilitate political parties, candidates and others seeking clearances from various State government departments and agencies for putting up banners, posters and advertisements, holding election rallies and camps, and for making transport arrangements.
Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha told The Hindu that functionaries of political parties and candidates normally approach officers in the Revenue, Police and Transport departments, urban local bodies and gram panchayats for permission and are forced to run from one office to another, wasting their time and energy.
To help avoid such inconvenience, he said, the Chief Electoral Officer’s office had set up a single-window system at various levels — the Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) in the office of the Police Commissionerates in Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore and Hubli-Dharwad, the Additional Superintendent of Police in the office of the Superintendent of Police, and at taluk headquarters.
It had been made mandatory for those in charge of the single-window agency to ensure that concurrent clearance was obtained from the departments/agencies concerned and furnished to the parties and individuals, Mr. Jha said. With this, functionaries of political parties and candidates would not have to make unnecessary visits to so many offices for clearances, he said.
Last two daysThere are only two more days left for people to register their names to be included in the electoral rolls. Registration can be done at ward offices in the city corporations, tahsildar’s office and at the revenue office in panchayats. Those in villages could submit their applications in the gram panchayats, from where the applications would be sent to the taluk offices.
Registration of names could also be done at BangaloreOne and KarnatakaOne centres.
