INDORE: As part of its ongoing preparations for the forthcoming assembly polls, the district electoral office has identified 13 polling booths, which will be shifted elsewhere.The booths to be shifted are either in dilapidated condition or very far away from registered voters. There are some other reasons also due to which they will be shifted.Two booths each in Depalpur, Indore-II, Indore-III and Indore-V constituencies, one in Sanwer and four in Rau constituency will be shifted. The district electoral office has sent an application to MP Election Commission in Bhopal for shifting the 13 polling stations.While explaining about the reasons for shifting the polling booths, the local authority said one of the polling stations has to be shifted due to construction of a religious structure at its place while another is located on a police station campus. Besides them, one polling station is five km away from locality of voters registered at the centre. Buildings of the remaining polling stations are in dilapidated conditions. If the proposal will be accepted by the Bhopal office, the number of existing polling stations will reduce from 3109 to 3108 across the district.The district electoral office has repaired buildings of six dilapidated polling stations. It had received applications for shifting 100 polling stations. After examination, the authority found only 13 booths, which need to be shifted.BoxThe district electoral office will deploy 30,000 officials and employees on poll duty.“In the forthcoming assembly polls, 30,000 officials and employees will be assigned duties related to polling booths, election parties and distributing of election material among others,” the district election officer and collector Nishant Warwade said.He added that the authority has deployed 26 nodal officials and 97 master trainers.

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