Koraput: With Koraput district going to the polls in the first phase on April 11, the district administration claims to have taken all measures to ensure a free and fair election The district has five assembly seats and is also part of the Koraput and Nabarangpur Lok Sabha seats. As many as 9,48,662 registered electors will exercise their franchise in 1,141 booths, erected across 14 blocks of the district.“All prescribed guidelines laid by the Election Commission of India will be strictly followed to ensure free and fair polls. All steps have been taken to avoid any untoward incident,” said collector (Koraput) and district election officer, K Sudarshan Chakravarthy.The district shares a boundary with Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh; the collector said the administration would open 24x7 traffic surveillance camps along the interstate border. “Frisking of vehicles on the interstate border near Sunki bordering Andhra, and Chandili bordering Chhattisgarh, will be conducted to check inflow of illegal cash or miscreants with a motive to disturb the poll process,” Chakravarthy said.Apart from this, the administration has formed 18 flying squads comprising police and administrative officials for the five assembly segments to monitor the poll process. Also, it has opened a 24x7 toll-free number 1950 at the district headquarters for people to complain about any violation of the model code of conduct.Furthermore, people can lodge a complain on the Cvigil app of the Election Commission, which will be activated from March 18, by downloading it from the Google Play. Any complaint lodged against violation of the model code of conduct through the app will be addressed within 100 minutes and the complainant can check the status of the complaint through the app, the collector said.

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