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| Central forces arrive on poll duty | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Oct 30: The Centre has dispatched 70 companies of para-military forces for maintaining peace and security during the seven phased assembly elections in the state.
Security officials here said on Thursday that the centre has so far sent 70 out of 425 sanctioned companies to J&K for holding peaceful elections during first phase of polling on November 17.
The J&K government had demanded for 625 companies of security forces from the centre for poll duty but due to elections in other five states only 452 were sanctioned.
Drawn from Border Security Force (BSF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Special Services Bureau (SSB), Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Rapid Action Force (RAF), the companies will have a strength of 60 each.
They will be sent to Poonch, Rajouri and Badipora areas for poll duty, the security officials said.
Equipped with mobile phones and stationary security in Kashmir valley and in militancy areas of Jammu region, the forces will be guarding venues of poll rallies.
There are 8109 polling stations in the state and they would be guarded as per their specific nature - sensitive and hyper-sensitive, sources said.
The state's director general of police has asked range deputy inspector generals (DIGs)and district police chiefs to prepare security control rooms in each district and to undertake sanitisation operation in the sensitive places in the districts. |
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