Coimbatore: Government officials and teachers on Saturday said more than 50% of them had not received the postal ballot papers during the training programme that was held on Friday. “We were not informed that we could collect the ballot papers at the training centres,” a section of them said.
Members of the Joint Action Council of Teachers' Organizations-Government Employees' Organizations (Jacto-Geo) have petitioned district collector S Nagarajan, who is also the district election officer, in this regard on the day.
A Thangabasu, district coordinator, Jacto-Geo, said the training centres at Thondamuthur and Mettupalayam hadn’t received the ballot papers at all.
On Friday, election officials had conducted second phase of training for 21,250 government staff on election duty at the training centres that were set up in each of the 10 assembly constituencies in the district. They were provided an option to drop their ballots in sealed envelopes in a box that was placed at each centre.