Civic body to ready 1,290 poll booths

Coimbatore: The city will have 1,290 polling booths for the upcoming urban local body elections.
A source with the city corporation said each booth would have anywhere between 800 and 1,400 voters. “When the preparation for local body election was done in 2016, as many as 1,197 polling booths were planned. However, the election was not conducted then. Now that the number of voters has swelled by 1.23 lakh in the past five years, the number of polling booths will also increase.” As per the electoral roll, there are 7.69 lakh male, 7.68 lakh female and 278 third gender voters in the city. tnn