Returning Officer Udhampur Parliamentary constituency, Vikas Kundal, today chaired a meeting of AROs, Nodal Officers and senior officers of concerned departments to review the arrangements for counting of votes polled for recently held Parliamentary Elections.
The Returning Officer asked the concerned officers to put inplace an appropriate mechanism to ensure that the counting process is conductedin most professional and efficient manner. He emphasized on elaborate plan forsecurity arrangements, traffic plan, crowd management, deployment of staff,counting of votes and mechanism for declaration of results on the day ofcounting.
The meeting was informed that no person without valid IDproof will be allowed to enter the premises of the counting centers. Likewise,the EVMs will be moved from strong room to the counting center through aspecific route and would be escorted by the designated officers as per theguidelines of ECI, RO added.