By Mayukh Goswami
Mangaldai : Darrang district administration while gearing up their election preparations for four assembly segments under 8 Mangaldoi HPC has divided a section of polling stations under some special categories as per the ECI guidelines . Accordingly out of the total of 1065 polling stations in Mangaldoi Election District twelve have been identified as model polling stations where there will be some special amenities like sitting arrangements and drinking water facilities etc . In addition to these model polling stations there will be forty other polling stations which have been identified as all women polling stations . These polling stations will be run only by women officials including security personnels. Among the forty PS , maximum of twenty two are in Mangaldoi LAC while eight are in Sipajhar , six in Dalgaon and rest four are in Kalaigaon LAC .
This has been informed by Ghanshyam Dass, the Returning Officer of 8 Mangaldoi HPC and the Deputy Commissioner of Darrang while talking to this reporter . The Deputy Commissioner further stated that apart from these PS , there are seventy five no of PS which will be covered by Web Casting facilities . Out of these seventy five maximum of thirty five falls under Kaliagon LAC , nineteen in Mangaldoi LAC , fourteen in Sipajhar and the remaining seven in Dalgaon LAC . Meanwhile from the Law and Order point of view vulnerabilities mapping has been done for all polling stations and they are being categorized as per ECI guidelines .Eight nos of vulnerable hamlet has been identified with a total of seventeen polling stations and special arrangements such as frequent visits of sector and zonal officers , regular patrolling by Central and State police forces have been made . Moreover as many as 115 polling stations have been identified as critical polling stations on the basis of perecentage of vote cast in favour of one particular candidate and the total percentage votes polled in the last assembly election as well as from the aspect of political and communal angle . “ Special arrangements have been made like deployment of micro observer , videographer and possibly installation of CC TV have been made for all these polling stations .” , Deputy Commissioner Dass included .
