Dehradun ,May 03: The Election Commission today reviewed poll arrangements in Uttaranchal and decided to deploy 70,000 police and civil personnel to conduct the May 10 Lok Sabha elections in the state. After holding high-level meetings with top government and police officials , Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami told reporters that he was satisfied with the arrangements being made in the hill state where 52.62 lakh voters would exercise their franchise in the last phase of the elections for five seats. A total of 6819 polling stations would be set up in the state, he said. Out of these, 722 have been declared as sensitive while 432 are hyper-sensitive. The Election Commissioner said nearly 70 per cent voters have been issued identity cards and added that the remaining can use any of 14 documents for the purpose of identification.
Bureau Report