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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. The Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, Arun Goyal, has requested the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to operate trains from 4 a.m. on polling day on May 10 to facilitate the transportation of the polling staff. Likewise, the Delhi Transport Corporation - which had in the last elections placed about 3,000 buses at the disposal of the Election Commission - has been asked to run 1,000 buses and the Transport Department to run 1,000 other vehicles including 500 RTVs for taking the election officials to and fro their respective booths. In his letter to the Delhi Metro, Mr Goyal has demanded running of trains from 4 a.m. as against 5 a.m. in the last Assembly elections. This has been necessitated by the fact that this time the polling will start from 7 a.m. as against 8 a.m. earlier. In the case of Delhi Metro, the request is likely to find a favourable response as before the system begins operating at 6 a.m., a pilot train does a final post-inspection run at 5 a.m. So in effect, the DMRC will only have to advance its real operation by an hour. Likewise, the DTC had also adhered to the requests of the CEO the last time. It had run 1,200 special buses for the polling staff and had also placed an equal number more at the disposal of the Election Commission. But despite so many buses being put on election duty, a senior DTC official said, commuters were not going to face any problem as most of the buses put on polling duty would run normal operations during the daytime. As for the RTVs, they will be primarily deployed in Outer Delhi and East Delhi constituency. Mr Goyal has also sent a detailed Transportation Plan to the concerned officials on the number of vehicles required and the sector-wise parking place for them in all the parliamentary constituencies. The official has also requested that senior officers of bus depots be directed to send buses in good condition to the sector-wise locations and parking places and necessary stand-by arrangements also be made for any exigency including break-down. Further, he said, after bringing the polling parties from their polling stations to their respective reception-cum-counting centres, it should be ensured that at least five or six DTC buses remain at the counting centres till the process of depositing of all the electronic voting machines is completed so that all the poll personnel could thereafter be dropped to the nearby bus stops for facilitating their return home. The CEO had also demanded that one senior DTC officer be appointed as a nodal officers for each counting centre to liaise with the Returning Officers or Assistant ROs at the counting centres so that there is proper coordination all through. Also, he said, the DTC buses after dropping the poll personnel at the respective counting centres should leave only after taking permission from the nodal officer and public address systems be installed at every counting centre to announce the departure of the buses so that all those desirous of availing their service are able to do so. Mr Goyal said the bus service on the poll day should also continue till late in the night to facilitate the transportation of poll personnel in reaching their homes after depositing the poll material at the reception-cum-counting centres. As for May 13, the counting day, the CEO has demanded that special buses also be run from the counting centre at Jharoda Kalan to Najafgarh and Dhaula Kuan to facilitate the movement of men and material.
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