Vadodara: The byelection for the Karjan assembly seat will be held at 246 polling stations. The district election machinery has made elaborate arrangement of 311 polling stations including 65 supplementary stations for the by-election that will be held on Tuesday.
In view of Covid-19 pandemic, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued special directives to ensure that infection does not spread.
On Sunday, district collector and district election officer Shalini Agrawal visited Karjan to oversee preparations at the dispatch and receiving centre and polling stations.
Accordingly, all officers and staff at the receiving and dispatching centre will be screened while every voter coming to the polling stations will be provided one disposable polythene hand glove which will be worn in the right hand before pressing the button of the voting machine.
Around 5,000 pairs of rubbers gloves have been provided for the polling personnel while the polling stations will be sanitized on Monday.
A similar number of face shields have been provided to all the staff who will be on duty at the stations while 1,000 personal protection equipment (PPE) kits have also been allotted.
Body temperature of each voter will be checked through a thermal gun, their hands sanitized, their oxygen saturation levels checked through pulse oximeters before they enter polling booths.
The officers and staffers on duty have been provided special training in batches so that standard operating procedures in view of the pandemic are followed inside the polling booths.