00:00The countdown for the second phase of Assembly elections in 26 constituencies have started
00:20in J&K.
00:21The poll body has deployed staff and sent EVMs to the designating polling booths to
00:28seal the fate of 239 candidates including former J&K CM Mr. Umar Abdullah, Apni Party
00:36President Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari and the BJP State Unit Head Mr. Ravinder Raina.
00:41What are the preparations being made to ensure that smooth elections are conducted and more
00:47and more people come out to vote?
00:49Different kind of facilitation have been provided to right from the nomination process when
00:54the candidates were coming to us for filing the nominations at the RO headquarter in the
00:58Deputy Commissioner Office in Srinagar.
01:00So from there only we are facilitating the candidates.
01:03Now it's the time when the poll parties have come to the DCRC, DCRC means Displaced Collection
01:08Reception Centre at SP Higher Secondary School, this M.A Road.
01:12You are very much present in here and you can see, have a look up on the polling parties,
01:17they are having the Presiding Officer, polling 1, 2, 3 plus all the polling personnel as
01:23well as the microbus are in place and they have reported to the DCRC.
01:27Can you please tell us what are the preparations being made to ensure smooth conduct of votes tomorrow?
01:33Everything is okay here, starting to end, sab kuch iss weekend se ho raha hai.
01:39What are the preparations being made for the smooth conduct of votes tomorrow?
01:45As you can see, we have been provided with the necessary material which will be used
01:51at the concerned polling station where we are deployed and we have already been provided
01:59all the material.
02:00So the staff will be deployed and EVMs sent to the polling station?
02:04Yes, within 2 or 3 hours we will be going there.
02:09Polling percentage will be much better than the last election.
02:13Have the EVMs been sent to the designated places, designated polling points?
02:18No, EVMs have not been dispatched yet because we are expecting that whole polling parties
02:24of 143 polling stations will get their EVMs and the different kind of material which is
02:29required to be filled up by the polling parties at the closure of the poll, at the end of
02:32the poll, that is tomorrow on the poll day.
02:34So we are expecting that after taking the lunch, after having the lunch, they will be
02:38dispatched from this area only.
02:39Sir, are there any special polling booths for women and handicapped?
02:42Yes, there are different kind of special polling stations for women, there are pink polling
02:47station, it's in the higher secondary school Zadibal, the green polling station for the
02:52Zadibal Kanchan Si is in the Sajgaripura, it's in the Shaheen Public School.
02:55We are having a special polling station for the disabled also and we are also supplying
02:59the wheelchairs for physically challenged people.
03:02The polling parties will get the wheelchairs at the time of receiving the machinery, that
03:07is the EVM and other kind of material.
03:09So they will provide the facilities for the PWD voters in the polling station as well.
03:14The ramp has also been placed as an assured minimum facility.
03:16The countdown for the second phase of assembly elections in 26 constituencies have started
03:21in J&K.
03:23The poll body has deployed staff and sent EVMs to the designating polling booths to
03:29seal the fate of 239 candidates including former J&K CM Mr. Umar Abdullah, Apni Party
03:37President Syed Mohammed Altaf Bukhari and the BJP State Unit Head Mr. Ravinder Raina.
03:43In Srinagar for One India, Izhar Ali.
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