Important role of Government employees play on the day of polling…
One of the reasons for this importance
is the practice of selecting only the state and Central Government
employees for election duties.One can say that it is impossible to hold
elections without the assistance of state and Central Government
employees. So crucial is their contribution.
They are involved in election duties for
months, either directly or indirectly. The crowning moment of these
efforts are during the polling day when thousands of government
employees are appointed at all the polling booths, on an average of at
least 3 per booth.
It might look like an easy task to
handle in metropolitan cities and smaller towns. It is not easy to carry
out these tasks in remote villages or mountainous polling booths that
are almost isolated from the rest of the civilisation. More dangerous
are the constituencies and areas that have been deemed sensitive and
hypersensitive. In such areas, polling is held under tight security.
From morning until evening, these officers have to sit at the polling
stations with a heavy blanket of security. At the end of the polling,
the voting machines are taken away under high security, but the
officials who had manned the booth are left to fend for themselves and
find their way back home.
According to the Government Order, if an
employee deployed for poll duties fails to turn up on the polling day,
then severe action would be taken against him/her.
In the past, a number of requests have
been made to the Government to increase the honorarium paid to the
employees on poll duties. Finally, it looks as if the Election
Commission has heard the requests. According to information available,
the Presiding Officer will be paid Rs. 1600, and the Polling Officer
shall get an honorarium of Rs. 1150. The money shall be deposited
directly in their bank accounts.
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