2,500 polling staff in Polavaram get postal ballot facility

Rampachodavaram: Special arrangements have been made to enable around 2,500 officials and employees deployed for local body election duties in the Polavaram district to exercise their voting rights through postal ballots, District Election Officer and Collector K Dinesh Kumar said.

On Sunday, polling personnel exercised their franchise at postal ballot centres established at various mandal headquarters.

The district administration established special centres with ballot papers, polling material and required staff to facilitate the process. Officials supervised the voting to ensure that it was conducted transparently and in accordance with election rules.

Collector Dinesh Kumar inspected the postal ballot centre set up at the MPDO office in Gangavaram mandal. He enquired about the arrangements, voting process and facilities provided to polling personnel. Similarly, polling personnel exercised their voting rights at the postal ballot centre established at the MPDO office in Rampachodavaram. Officials and employees from various mandals arrived at the centres in the morning and participated in the voting process.

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Deekshitula Subrahmanyam

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Deekshitula RV Subrahmanyam is a Staff Reporter with The Hans India, covering the erstwhile East and West Godavari districts, along with Alluri Sitarama Raju and Polavaram districts. A journalist with experience of over three decades, he began his career as a Telugu mofussil reporter in 1991. He writes extensively on politics, tribal affairs, rural development, tourism, development, and human-interest stories He is the author of the six-part Telugu prose Ramayana Sitarama Kathasudha and has received several literary and journalistic honours, including the JCI Young Writer Award, Vadlamudi Rammohan Rao Memorial Award and Madduri Annapurnayya Memorial Award.

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