Around 200 thousand employees needed to conduct election: EC;  Election education training to under secretaries and officers

Kathmandu / March 14: The Election Commission (EC) needs around 200 thousand employees for the local level election.

EC spokesman Surya Prasad Sharma informed the media today that around 218 thousand staff will be necessary to conduct the election. “We have told the District Election Offices to fix suitable voting centre for now. After that, we will ask the government to provide the employees required for conducting the local election,” he added. According to him the EC is preparing to assign employees for the election at the rate of eight employees per a voting centre.

He said there would be five government officials including the polling officer, deputy polling officer, an officer verifying the voters’ names, an officer putting ink mark on the thumb of the voters and two assistants and three local volunteers at a single polling centre. The EC will depute eitheran under-secretary, section officer or non-gazetted first class officer as the polling officer.

Spokesman Sharma said the employees from the civil service and government corporations as well as teachers of community schools would be mobilized for election duty.

Election education training to under secretaries and officers

Meanwhile, the Election Commission has imparted ‘training of trainers (TOT)’ targeting the upcoming local poll.

The commission today began two-day training in this connection, in which 32 under secretaries and officers at the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development are taking part.

The trained officials will be assigned to impart the training in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Sindhuli, Pokhara, Dang, Nepalgunj and Dhangadhi very soon.

The attendees of the regional training will impart the training to secretaries at the village bodies and election education volunteers.

The chief election commissioner Dr Ayodhi Prasad Yadav, while inaugurating the training, said that the training was launched aimed at lessening the invalid votes.

Education regarding election laws, election programme, monitoring, management, nomination, dispute settlement, sample voting, vote counting among other issues would be imparted in the training, it is learnt. RSS