Hyderabad: Sixty two polling personnel who did not turn up for training for conducting the Huzurabad bypolls have been issued show-cause notices by the Karimnagar district administration.
The training is being conducted to familiarise the staff on the procedures to be followed for conducting the polling, counting and adhering to the rules prescribed. Karimnagar collector and district election officer RV Karnan issued the show-cause notices.
The training programme was held for presiding officers and assistant presiding officers at at SRR Government Degree and PG College.
A Covid-19 vaccination centre was also opened on the premises so that all polling personnel will take the second dose of vaccination too.
Police observer Anupam Agarwal, expenditure observer Elamurugu, general observers Muthu Krishnan and Shankar Narayan, Karnan, additional collector Garima Agarwal and Karimnagar police commissioner V Satyanarayana visited the office of the returning officer on the last day of receiving nominations for the bypoll to be held on October 30. Some of those who had filed their nominations also interacted with the officials.
The government declared a public holiday on October 30 (Saturday) on the polling day in Huzurabad assembly constituency to enable the people to cast their vote.
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyde...
Read MoreSushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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