Elections Polling Personnel Use the Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees in polling duties instructions communicated Memo:253

Elections Polling Personnel Use the Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees in polling duties instructions communicated Reg.

Memo. No.253/Elecs.D/2024-2 Dated. 14.02.2024.

Ref: 

1. From the ECI Letter No.39/AP/SOU3/2023, dt.19.01.2024 together with the representation dt.09.01.2024 of Sri N.Chandrababu Naidu, President, TDP & other delegation.

2. From the ECI, L.No.464/AP-HP/SOU3/2023, dated: 01.02.2024.

Copy of the reference cited together with its enclosures is communicated herewith to all the Collectors and District Election Officers in Andhra Pradesh, wherein the Commission has communicated their no objection to deploy eligible regular Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees as part of polling parties in the forthcoming simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and APLA, 2024, with certain conditions.

2. All the Collectors & District Election Officers are, therefore, requested to take necessary action accordingly.

Subject: General Election to the Lok Sabha, 2024 and APLA, 2024Use of the Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees in polling duties - Regarding.

Sir,

I am directed to refer to your letter no. 253/Elecs.D/A1/2024-1 dated 30.01.2024 on the subject cited above and to state that the Commission has no objection to deploy eligible regular Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees as part of polling parties in the forthcoming simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and APLA, 2024, with the following conditions:

i. Gram/ Ward Sachivalayam employees shall be assigned duty only as OPO for miscellaneous work like applying indelible ink to the voter sand other sundry jobs only.

ii. Each polling party formed can have maximum one such eligible regular Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees.

iii. Gram/Ward Sachivalayam employees deployed as BLOs shall not be deployed in polling parties, as they have other duties assigned on poll day as per extant instructions.

iv. Village/Ward Volunteers shall neither be deployed for any kind of election related works nor shall they can act as polling agents of any candidate, as directed earlier by the Commission vide letter no. 100/AP-HP/1/SOU3/2021/793 dated 13th April 2021.

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