Haflong,
April 6, 2019: The District Election Office of Dima Hasao has appointed teams
of flying quads, static surveillance team and video surveillance team divided
into four zones, each team of four zones comprise of two to three civil
officer/ assistant along with security personnel.
These
teams are keeping a close vigil on possession or carrying of liquor,
unaccounted cash in excess of Rs 50,000 as barred as per the election laws,
articles or materials which may lead in enticing the voters. Video surveillance
team have been on toes to video shoot all the political rallies, party meetings
and gatherings in order to keep a check on violation of model code of conduct
as enforced by the election commission and also for close monitoring on
expenditure by the political parties.
DEO issued
directives to the Bank officials to inform the district administration in case
of any suspicious transaction in their banks. Excise department is to tag with
respective police station officials and also coordinate with flying squads and
static surveillance teams and crack down on illegal liquor outlets. It has been
observed that apart from minor violations of MCC such as pasting of posters and
flagging in public and government properties no serious violations is
reported.
The
Expenditure Monitoring cell constituted their office at the ground floor of the
DIPRO’s building with necessary logistics keeping close coordination with their
team to keep a track on expenses incurred by the political parties. The
relevant team in the expenditure monitoring cell along with the Assistant
Expenditure Observer will report Returning Officer for 3 Autonomous District
(ST) at Diphu, scheduled on 8th, 12th and 16th of this month to report with
their evidence and shadow observation register for inspection of the
candidates’ expenditure so far in Dima Hasao. Moreover the new mobile
application ‘cVIGIL’ introduced by the election commission to keep tab on
violators of poll code during elections is gaining momentum among the conscious
public in Dima Hasao. c-Vigil is a fast-track complaint reception and redressal
system, which is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report Model
Code of Conduct and Expenditure violations during the election. cVIGIL is
user-friendly and easy to operate android application and can be downloaded
from the google play store.
The
administration is also on round the clock available at the control room that
can be contacted at number 1950.
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