The Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Distribution of polling materials at 14 centres in district today
Distribution of polling materials for the Lok Sabha elections will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday.
There are 14 distribution centres in the district.
Control rooms will function at assistant returning ocer level of the Assembly constituency concerned at the distribution centres of the 14 constituencies in the Attingal and Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituencies.
Electronic voting machines (EVMs) and related material for the polling will be distributed through distribution desks arranged for each Assembly constituency.
Distribution desks arranged for each Assembly segment to issue EVMs and related materials
Transportation
A total of 695 vehicles have been arranged with the support of the Motor Vehicles department to transport polling ocers and material to the booths.
An armed police ocer will be posted in each vehicle for security.
Kudumbashree food courts have been arranged in distribution centres for polling ocials. Green protocol will be implemented in the distribution centres.
248 sectoral o cials
As many as 248 sectoral ofcials have been deployed to assist poll ocials, the District Collector who is the district election ocer has said.
EVM distribution centres will function at S.N. College (Varkala); Government Boys Higher Secondary
School (Attingal); Government College, Attingal (Chirayinkeezhu); Nedumangad Girls Higher Secondary School (Nedumangad); Sri Narayanavilasam Higher Secondary School, Anad (Vamanapuram); Loyola ICSE School south block, Sreekaryam (Kazhakuttam); St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Pattom (Vattiyurkavu); Government Higher Secondary School for Girls, Manacaud (Thiruvananthapuram); Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Cotton Hill (Nemom); Government Technical High School, Manja (Aruvikkara); GVHSS, Parassala (Parassala); Christian College, Kattakada (Kattakada); Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Neyyattinkara (Kovalam); and Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Neyyattinkara (Neyyattinkara).