Coimbatore: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has instructed officials to collect the details of government employees, who will be deployed for the 2021 assembly election duty.
Details of 25,000 employees in the district will be collected, an official said. The selected employees will be given training to conduct the election.
Coimbatore collector K Rajamani had released the draft electoral roll on November 16. As per the roll, the district has 29,70,733 voters, including 1,468,222 male voters, 1,502,142 female voters and 369 voters in the third gender category. There are 3,048 polling stations.
According to sources in the election department, ECI will need at least 14,000 people to manage the election in Coimbatore alone. “We have sought the details of staff in each department. So far, we have compiled details of 10,000 and will collect details of 15,000 more. We will then create a database,” said an official. “Pregnant women and those who are sick will not be deployed.”
Meanwhile, ECI has launched PWD (persons with disability) app to help people with disabilities. The app was introduced during the Bihar assembly election. It will enable use of wheelchairs, ramps and transport from home to polling booths for disabled voters.
The final electoral roll will be released on January 20.