Polling centres set up in Humla

By Our Correspondent,Humla, Nov. 19: Election staffs in Humla have started setting up polling centres for Sunday’s elections. All of them reached their designated centres on Wednesday and started setting up booths, queuing areas, and other necessary infrastructure from Thursday morning.

According to Rajan Chand, who is the polling officer assigned to Kalashilta Basic School in Simkot Rural Municipality–6, the employees have erected a fence around the centre and tied ropes to create a path for the voters to line up along. Similarly, they have constructed temporary toilets and drinking water stations. 

Similarly, Tilak Bhattarai, polling officer at Himal Primary School in Namkha Rural Municipality–4, said that the election staff there had outlined the boundaries for the polling centre, put up notices informing people of the ban on liquor and weapons and had held all-party meetings.

 He also shared that they had to construct an alternative path from the school gate to the booths because the school building was old and the pre-existing way was in a dilapidated condition.

Chief Election Officer Dil Prasad Sapkota said that all the centres of the district would be completely set up by Saturday. He also informed that the centres would be made disabled-, senior citizen- and pregnant-women-friendly. There are 59 polling centres in Humla.