Control rooms set up for local body polls in districts
The Hindu
The district administration has set up a control room to enable people to lodge complaints with regard to malpractices during the rural local body polls on October 9. Collector H. Krishnanunni in a re
The district administration has set up a control room to enable people to lodge complaints with regard to malpractices during the rural local body polls on October 9.
Collector H. Krishnanunni in a release said people could call the over 0424-2266766. Elections would be held to fill 27 posts – one district panchayat ward member, two panchayat union ward members, four village panchayat presidents and 20 posts of village panchayat ward members.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.