Security beefed up for 1st phase of polls in Jamshedpur
For the first phase of polling in the three assembly seats in Jamshedpur, security forces have been beefed up. The security apparatus is in place already and forces in most cases have already reached their places of deployment.
THE STAGE is now set for the first phase of polling for the three assembly seats of Jugsalai, Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West) on Wednesday (November 25). Security forces comprising of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Jharkhand Jaguar assault groups, Jharkhand armed police, a battalion of Maharashtra state armed police, district police and home guards have almost reached their places of deployment to ensure peaceful polling under threat of Naxalite effort to disrupt the polling.
Jamshedpur district commissioner Ravindra Agrawal and superintendent of police Navin Kumar Singh told a joint press conference here on Monday (November 23) evening that all arrangements for peaceful, free and fair polling have been made. "Of the five booths we did requested for relocating in view of Naxalite threat, the one at Primary School Koera has been approved and the new booth would be at Primary School Saomaydih under Jugsalai constituency," Agrawal said, adding that location of five booths in Mango and four in Govindpur area have been changed in view of dilapidated buildings.
According to him, 308 booths have been categorised as sensitive, 498 have been categorised as hyper sensitive and 64 as normal booths from security viewpoint of the 870 booths at 458 locations covering the three seats. "This apart, we have identified 75 vulnerable and 95 critical booths as per access difficulties, absurdly high percentage of voting, high voting in favour of a single candidate etc," he added.
The DC further informed that a total of 87 micro-observers have been deployed along with 68 digital cameras to monitor the polling process in these 95 critical booths. "Of these, 60 booths have both micro-observers and digital cameras while eight will have only digital cameras and 27 will have only micro-observers," said Agrawal.
"The security apparatus is in place already and forces in most cases have already reached their places of deployment. CISF companies will man the strong rooms while the CRPF companies we already had at our disposal would be on operational duties. We are not tying up all the companies to booth duties. We have also been promised a helicopter for surveillance, casualty evacuation, reinforcement and dropping of forces," the SP said, adding that border sealing exercise would be further strengthened on polling day.
According to him, 308 booths have been categorised as sensitive, 498 have been categorised as hyper sensitive and 64 as normal booths from security viewpoint of the 870 booths at 458 locations covering the three seats. "This apart, we have identified 75 vulnerable and 95 critical booths as per access difficulties, absurdly high percentage of voting, high voting in favour of a single candidate etc," he added.
The DC further informed that a total of 87 micro-observers have been deployed along with 68 digital cameras to monitor the polling process in these 95 critical booths. "Of these, 60 booths have both micro-observers and digital cameras while eight will have only digital cameras and 27 will have only micro-observers," said Agrawal.
"The security apparatus is in place already and forces in most cases have already reached their places of deployment. CISF companies will man the strong rooms while the CRPF companies we already had at our disposal would be on operational duties. We are not tying up all the companies to booth duties. We have also been promised a helicopter for surveillance, casualty evacuation, reinforcement and dropping of forces," the SP said, adding that border sealing exercise would be further strengthened on polling day.
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