One Booth In Each Constituency To Be Totally Manned By Women Staff, Says Election Commission

The ECI on Saturday has announced the dates for the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the five states - Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

One Booth In Each Constituency To Be Totally Manned By Women Staff. (Representative image: Getty)

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India, while announcing dates for polling to the five states, said that at least one booth in each assembly constituency would be exclusively managed by women personnel in a bid to encourage women voters.

"ECI has mandated that at least one polling station managed exclusively by women shall be set up in every Assembly constituency. Our officers have identified much more than that. There're 690 Assembly seats but we are setting up 1620 such polling booths," said Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra.

Over 13 crore electors will take part in this elections. Women participation has increased in all these states. It is a healthy sign. The gender ratio has also increased in all the states, added the Chief Election Commissioner. 

A total of 18.34 crore electors including service voters will take part in this election out of which 8.55 crore are women electors: CEC Sushil Chandra on 5 States polls pic.twitter.com/gwqZYos2MS

— ANI (@ANI) January 8, 2022

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday has announced the dates for the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of the five states - Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

The elections are to be held for 403 assembly seats in UP, 117 in Punjab, 70 in Uttarakhand, 60 in Manipur and 40 in Goa, said the Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra.

Sushil Chandra also said that 24.9 lakh first-time electors are registered in the five poll-bound states, including Uttar Pradesh.