EC needs around 218 thousands employees for election

KATHMANU, March 14: The Election Commission (EC) has stated that it needed around 218 thousand employees for conducting the local level election.

EC spokesman Surya Prasad Sharma informed the media today that around 218 thousand staff will be necessary to conduct the election. “We have told the District Election Offices to fix suitable voting center for now. After that, we will ask the government to provide the employees required for conducting the local election,” he added. According to him the EC is preparing to assign employees for the election at the rate of eight employees per a voting center.

He said there would be five government officials including the polling officer, deputy polling officer, an officer verifying the voters’ names, an officer putting ink mark on the thumb of the voters and two assistants and three local volunteers at a single polling centre.

The EC will depute eitheran under-secretary, section officer or non-gazetted first class officer as the polling officer.

Spokesman Sharma said the employees from the civil service and government corporations as well as teachers of community schools would be mobilized for election duty. RSS