The Ramanagaram district administration has made elaborate arrangements for peaceful polling during the second phase of the gram panchayat elections scheduled for Tuesday.
The election will be held for 1,956 posts in 120 gram panchayats of Ramanagaram district. The district administration has appointed 5,533 government officials for the poll duties and the Police Department has deployed 2,273 police personnel to ensure peaceful polling. In all, 4,312 contestants, including 2,058 women, are in the fray. The district administration has set up 925 polling booths. Of them, 205 have been identified as sensitive and 94 as hypersensitive, the official sources told The Hindu .
A total of 6,76,994 voters are expected to exercise their franchise. Of them, 3,36,629 are women.
Ballot boxes
The election officials on Monday collected the ballot boxes and other poll-related materials at Government First Grade College in Ramanagaram, Government Polytechnic in Channapatna, Government PU College in the NES Layout at Magadi and Grameen Vidyasamsthe at Kanakapura.
Later, they shifted the ballot boxes and poll-related materials from these mustering centres to the respective booths.
The polling will commence at 7 a.m. and end at 5 p.m.
