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#HimachalPradeshElections : 30,000 Security Personnel On Duty To Ensure Peaceful Poll ; Single Phase Polling For All 68 Assembly Seats
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About 30,000 security personnel including 67 companies of Central Armed Police Forces and over 11,500 state police personnel will be deployed for peaceful conduct of polling in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday.
As per ANI report , Polling for 68 assembly segments would be held in a single phase. About 50,000 government employees are on poll duty.
Of the 7881 polling stations, 981 are critical and 901 have been categorised as vulnerable.
Chask Bhatori of Bharmour Tribal AC of Chamba district is one such polling station where the polling party has to walk 14 km to reach.
As many as 55,92,828 electors are eligible to vote in the polls, which includes 67,559 service electors and 22 NRIs.
Of the total eligible electors, 27,37,845 are female, 28,54,945 are male and 38 belong to the third gender. As many as 1.93 lakh voters are between 18-19 years of age.
