KIPHIRE: Election duties should be taken as a privilege but not as burden, said ARO & DC Kiphire, Neposo Thelou, while welcoming the presiding & 1st Polling Officers in the second phase training programme at ZPC conference hall on March 20. The training programme is being conducted in view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha Election.
Neposo said that in the first training, no detail instruction could be given, but that in the second phase, training and intensive instruction will be given to all the polling personnel as the role of the presiding officer and second polling officer would be very heavy.
The ARO also said that the district election machinery has set up a medical board for those who have applied for exemption for election duty. The applicant will have to go through the medical test and only the genuine cases will be considered. He cautioned that no one will be given exemption on flimsy grounds.
On detailment of election duty, the DC said that it will be done on randomization process, in presence of the election observer. As such, the district election machinery will not pick up any government servant to go to a particular place on request.
The DC also said that the third training programme will be done just before the polling, whereby he urged the polling personnel to make themselves available during the third training programme.
SDO (C) & ARO Dr. Tinojongshi Chang presented a PowerPoint on a case study on the Do’s and Don’ts for polling personnel and briefly outlined the duties and responsibilities of presiding officers and first polling officers.
The master trainers C.P. Bose, G.T. GHS, Kiphire and S.R. Singh, GT G.H.S, Kiphire conducted training on duties and responsibilities for presiding officers and polling officers for conduct of election.
