Counting day: Traffic diversion on Palladam Road tomorrow

Tirupur: The city police have put in place traffic diversion on Palladam Road to facilitate the entry of vehicles to the Tirupur parliamentary constituency counting centre at LRG Government College for Women on Thursday.
No ‘outside’ vehicles will be allowed between Santhapettai and Vidhyalayam stretch. Vehicles carrying party cadres to the counting centre should be parked at Ramasamy Muthammal Thirumana Mandapam. Vehicles of government officials and police personnel should be parked inside the collectorate campus. No vehicle should be parked on either side of the road in front of LRG college.
As many as 477 police personnel, including 24 Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, would man the counting centre on the counting day, collector KS Palanisamy said. “Fourteen tables have been set up in the counting hall to count the ballots. Each table would have three trained personnel for the counting, which would be done in front of candidates’ agents, in the presence of micro-observer. Assistant returning officers would watch the counting of six assembly constituencies and the collector will oversee the process,” he said.
“The final result of each round would be declared after finding whether the votes counted in any five EVMs, which would be chosen randomly as per assembly constituency, were matching that of VVPAT slips,” Palanisamy added.