The Nilgiris District Collector and Returning Officer for the Nilgiris Parliamentary constituency M. Aruna inspected the dispatch of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and polling materials from the Breeks Memorial Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Udhagamandalam on Thursday.
Ms. Aruna told reporters there were a total of 1,619 polling booths in the six Assembly segments that comprise the Nilgiris Parliamentary constituency. Of the six, three were in the Nilgiris (Coonoor, Udhagamandalam and Gudalur), while three other Assembly segments were in Erode (Bhavanisagar), Tiruppur (Avinashi) and Coimbatore (Mettupalayam) districts.
In the Nilgiris district, 106 of the 689 polling booths are considered “vulnerable” and will have election observers as well as videographers in the booths.
