GB Nagar district administration gears up for polls

Noida | Thursday | 7th March, 2019

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All new 1.34 lakh voters will be given voter cards which will be distributed by the BLOs. “We are still looking for more PWDs from chief medical officer (CMO) and these will be tagged once the data comes in,” said Singh.Meanwhile, District administration and SSP Gautam Budh Nagar have begun preparations for the 17th Lok Sabha Elections 2019 to be held in coming months. Under this, while 22 nodal officers, assistant nodal officers, 112 sector magistrates, 20 zonal magistrates, three new SDMs, BDOs, new police personnel etc. The PDF of their data have already been sent to Chennai for generating voter cards,” said BN Singh, district magistrate Gautam Budh Nagar.Apart from this, 4433 voters are registered as persons with disability (PWD) and have been tagged. In this, 1.34 lakh are new voters who have attained the age of 18 as of January 1, 2019.“Three reasons have been noted for the increase in voters which are namely, increased number of flat owners (high rise apartment residents), migrant workers and students..