Counting of Votes On Saturday

Will It Ease the Administration

Curtains will come down on the election process of Pune on Saturday with about 4,500 employees deployed for the counting work. This will be the first time in the history of Pune district that such a large number of employees will be deployed for the exercise.

Counting of all four constituencies — Pune, Maval, Shirur and Baramati, will take place at Shivajinagar godown on Saturday. The counting process will be over before the noon itself. But the Election Commission has ordered to depute maximum employees for the counting. That is why, for each constituency one thousand employees will be deputed. Till now, there were only three constituencies in the district.

District collector Chandrakant Dalvi on Thursday informed that the administration is ready to carry out the counting process. Counting boxes from all four constituencies are placed in the 20 godowns. A total of 508 rounds of counting of votes will take place, Dalvi said.'

For common citizens, it also means that administration will return to working mode, at its usual slow pace. All the functions of the administration were put on back burner for last two months in the garb of code of conduct. As much as the usual problem of water supply, which is an annual exercise for the administration is also on hold. There is acute shortage in the district of drinking water. But hardly anybody has paid heed to it.

Counting in Maharashtra will be held at 39 centres. “Counting will begin at 8.00 am and almost all the results are expected within 8 hours”, according to Debashish Chakraborty, Chief Electoral Officer of Maharashtra.

The exercise will begin with the counting of postal ballots followed by assembly wise counting of votes. These will later be aggregated to obtain the result for the Lok Sabha constituency. Counting of votes will take place for one or more Lok Sabha Constituencies at a particular counting centre.