Jammu, Sept 27: Helicopters will be used to airdrop polling staff and material at 46 polling stations in remote and inaccessible areas of Doda district where elections to six assembly segments are slated on the fourth and final phase on October eight.
This was decided at high level meeting of state officers with Election Commission, headed by Chief Election Commissioner, J M Lyngdoh at district Headquaters in Doda today, official sources said here
Of 534 total polling stations --243 hyper-sensitive and 291 sensitive, 46 such polling booths fall in remote and inaccessible areas in five constituencies in the district.
The meeting also reviewed the security arrangements of this land-locked and mountainous district.

It was also decided that every polling station in all the six segments will be provided with wireless sets for better communications, the sources said adding Lyngdoh emphasized the need for free, fair and transparent polls in the district.

Besides, Lyngdoh, the meeting was attended by two Election Commissioners-- T S Krishnamurthy and B B Tandon, Chief Secretary I S Malhi and Director General of Police A K Suri.

Bureau Report