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Sensitive booths to be videographed

Syed Muthahar Saqaf

SUPERVISING: Pudukottai Collector S.J. Chiru, left, checking the polling materials at Karamabakudi on Thursday.

Special Correspondent

TIRUCHI: All is set for the first phase of local body polls in the seven central districts of the State on Friday.

Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure free and fair polling. In addition to the local police, about 18 companies of Tamil Nadu Special Police and six companies of Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel have been deployed in these districts.

A three-tier bandobust will be in place with the police having identified the sensitive booths in the respective districts. The Revenue authorities have ordered videographing of polling in these booths. Polling will be held in 13 town panchayats in Tiruchi district on Friday.

A dozen municipalities, 51 town panchayats, 40 panchayat unions and more than 1,400 village panchayats in the districts of Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Karur, Pudukottai and Perambalur will go to the polls in the first phase.

The officials have also moved to the respective areas with the police being deployed in the designated places.

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