Guwahati (The Stellar News), Nava Thakuria: As Assam goes for legislative assembly polls on 27 March, 1 and 6 April next, hectic preparations by the State electoral officers become more visible. Recently a detailed review meeting was organised
in presence of Election Commission of India’s special central observers with various poll-regulatory agencies in the city.
The meeting, attended by special general observer Sudarsanam Srinivasan, special police observer Ashok Kumar, special expenditure observer Neena Nigam, additional State chief electoral officer Vinod Seshan, ECI representatives Dharmendra Sharma and Pankaj Srivastava (via video conferencing), reviewed performances of various regulatory agencies for conducting a free and fair polls.
Meanwhile, All India Radio has taken responsibility to create more awareness about the elections among masses. The State chief electoral officer (CEO) has already entrusted many senior officers to participate in AIR produced interview-based programs. Accordingly additional CEO Debo Prasad Mishra, joint CEO Lakhinandan Saharia will speak about training and electoral roll, additional CEO Vinod Seshan with two other officers will describe about poll-expenditure monitoring, etc.
Additional CEO Oinam Sarankumar Singh and joint CEO Pranjal Choudhury will then talk about postal ballot facilities, where joint CEO Rahul Chandra Das and one officer will narrate about the poll process, joint CEO Pulak Patgiri and one officer on EVM matters and joint CEO P Uday Praveen with Dimple Barua will discuss about SVEEP.
