Elaborate bandobust for panchayat polls

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JULY 10. Elaborate arrangements have been made by the police authorities for peaceful conduct of the ZPTC and MPTC elections being held in two phases on July 12 and 15. Besides the bandobust at 48,298 polling stations in 1095 mandals, movement of the police force in mobile parties, deployment of striking force and special striking force at strategic places and movement of senior police officers for supervision are being taken care of.

There will be 4814 mobile parties besides 1122 striking forces and 466 special striking forces. In all, 4426 villages have been identified as hyper sensitive, 6625 as sensitive and 385 as inaccessible villages, the Director-General of Police, Mr. H. J. Dora, said in a press release.

All officers deployed will be connected with wireless equipment to enable them to reach the trouble spots quickly. All the districts are connected to the main control room in the DGP office, which has a teleprinter communication network and high band voice communication.

Vehicle-checking is also to be done and persons with bad antecedents, moving from one place to another with lethal weapons will be taken into custody. Check-posts have been set up to check movement of vehicles.

Altogether, about 63,863 civil policemen, 16,275 armed forces, 8785 APSP personnel, 3045 CRPF personnel, 10,428 home guards are being deployed. In addition, 5 TRPF companies from Tamil Nadu, 4 KRPF companies from Karnataka, 5 MSRPF companies from Maharashtra and 2 ORPF companies from Orissa would be on duty.

The first phase of polling would cover Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, West Godavari, Guntur, Nellore, Chittoor, Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy, Nizamabad, Warangal and Khammam districts while the second phase would cover Vizianagaram, East Godavari, Krishna, Prakasam, Cuddapah, Anantapur, Kurnool, Nalgonda, Medak, Karimnagar and Adilabad.

The DGP appealed to people to cooperate with the police in conducting the polls peacefully.

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