Staff Reporter
Port Blair, 14 February 2022
Randomisation process to classify officials on polling duty as Presiding Officers, Polling Officers-1, 2 and 3 and Polling Assistant was done at the office of the Director, Panchayat and Municipal Elections on 14.02.2022 in the interest of free and fair elections as well as for the formation of unbiased polling parties.
Mr. Suneel Anchipaka, IAS, Director, Panchayat and Municipal was present to personally oversee the process of randomization using the software developed by SOVTECH/DBRAIT.
An approximate total of 4280 Government employees shall be selected for polling duties in 800 polling booths all over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The order of First Randomization has been served to all the polling staff for attending the first training programme scheduled to start next week.
In the second randomization, the team of polling personnel shall be constituted and in the last and final randomization, constituencies and polling booth will be allocated to the polling staff.