Mangaluru: As the state gears up for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections tomorrow (April 26), the Dakshina Kannada district administration and the Election Commission have made elaborate arrangements for the peaceful conduct of voting in the constituency.
There are a total of 1,818,127 voters in the Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency, of which 887,122 are male voters and 930,928 are female voters. 77 belong to other genders.
The administration has established a total of 1,876 polling booths across the Lok Sabha constituency, out of which 171 are categorized as very sensitive due to previous election-related irregularities or violence, and 1,705 are considered normal polling booths.
In the Mangaluru City Police Commissionerate limits, a total of 1,500 officers will be deployed for the Bandobast. Among them, 46 will work as PSI sector mobile officers, 14 as Inspectors serving as vision sector officers, and four Assistant Commissioners of Police as nodal officers. Of the 1,500 police personnel, 1,003 will be from the civil police, 350 from the Home Guards department, and 17 will be Forest Guards. Central security forces will guard 36 sensitive polling booths, with an additional 16 ASIs on duty.
Additionally, two platoons of Central Armed Police Force and one platoon of KSRP will be deployed. In the district limits, a total of 1,600 police staff will be deployed for election-related security, along with three platoons of Central Armed Police Force and nine platoons of KSRP. A total of 11,255 staff will be deployed for polling stations for polling-related duties.
In the city, mustering work began in the morning, the officials deployed for election related duty are leaving for the polling booths assigned to them. By afternoon, all the staff will leave for the polling stations, said ADC Dr G Santosh Kumar.
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