Secretary ECI Mr. S.B.Joshi and other members of the ECI team meeting the ROs from 11 districts of Punjab at Jalandhar on Dec. 12, 2016
Jalandhar, December 12, 2016: Expediting the preparations for the Punjab Assembly polls of 2017, a team of Election Commission of India today evaluated the returning officers knowledge regarding election process training given to them in view of ensuing Punjab Assembly elections 2017.
Team comprising of Secretary ECI Mr. S.B.Joshi, Joint CEO Odisha Mr. Bhawani Prashad Ray, Mr. Sibban C, Additional CEO Punjab and Mr. N. Moa Aier Joint CEO Nagaland today called the returning officers of 11 districts to evaluate their knowledge about the poll process. It may be mentioned here that training was given to all Returning officers from October 3 to 6, 2016 at Jalandhar. The districts included for evaluation at here were Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Amritsar, SBS Nagar, Taran Taran, Gurdaspur, Pathankot, Moga, Fazilka and Gurdaspur.
The evaluation were made regarding the steps taken during the possible circumstances, Nominations, scrutiny of nominations, Use of EVMs, new features of EVMs regarding voting, election expenditure, preparedness at polling stations during the polling.