Punjab CEO Prioritizes Staff Well-being with Arrangements for Heat Mitigation during Polling

In view of predicted high temperatures during Punjab's June 1 Lok Sabha elections, the state's Chief Electoral Officer has directed arrangements to ensure polling staff comfort. These include shade, drinking water, waiting areas, toilets, medication, and paramedical staff at all venues. Proper facilities, including bedding, refreshments, and medical assistance, will be provided at polling stations for staff, micro observers, and security personnel. Adequate food arrangements will be made where polling stations are not located in schools. Electricity arrangements for lighting will be made due to possible long queues after 6 pm.

In anticipation of scorching heat on election day in Punjab, state's Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C has asked senior officers to make necessary arrangements for the polling staff.

Polling for Punjab's 13 Lok Sabha seats will be held on June 1. In an advisory issued to all deputy commissioners-cum-district election officers, the CEO said shade, drinking water, waiting areas, and toilets must be provided to both men and women at the training venues, dispersal centres, polling stations and collection centres.

He further said officers have been asked to ensure adequate medicines.

Paramedical staff will be deployed at all the training venues, dispersal centres, polling stations and collection centres, he said in an official statement.

The arrangements at polling stations should be adequate with proper facilities for bedding, refreshments, toilets and mobile medical facilities for polling staff, micro observers as well as security staff (both state police and central forces).

The DCs were asked to ensure suitable arrangements for food for polling teams where a polling station is located other than in a school.

The CEO stressed that due to a heat wave warning by the meteorological department on the polling day, the voters may turn up late at polling stations.

With the possibility of long queues after 6 pm, all the DCs must also make adequate electricity arrangements for lighting at polling stations.

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