Recommend new buildings for replacement of existing poll stations: Rajasthan chief electoral officer

Jaipur: During a meeting with the political parties on special summary revision of photo electoral rolls, chief electoral officer (CEO) of Rajasthan Praveen Gupta on Friday asked them to recommend the names (of buildings/institutions) if they wanted to replace the existing polling stations with new ones anywhere in the state.
Nahar Singh of BJP said, “He wanted us to recommend the names of new polling stations, if we feel those are better than the existing ones, for replacement.For example: if any other building or institution is better in shape than the existing polling station, or if they are closer (to where the voters stay) than the existing one.”
“He also said the election department is trying to collect as much data as possible about persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the state. It would help them in ferrying as many PwDs as possible during elections so that the voting percentage can increase,” he added.
The Congress party was represented in the meeting by Satyendra Raghav.
Gupta gave instructions to the officials to streamline the existing polling stations and shift them to new buildings, if need be. He said the election department will provide training to booth level agents (BLAs), appointed by political parties, at the district level.
According to the schedule of summary revision, the draft publication of voters’ lists will be done on November 16 and the final publication will be issued on January 15, 2021.
With the state election commission postponing the polls to 129 nagar palikas to October 20, they have asked the district election officers (collectors) to submit a weekly Covid report to the Commission after seeking details from the health department.