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PANAJI
North Goa district administration has completed the first level of randomisation of electronic voting machines (EVM).
“First round is complete and with the final second round of randomisation on April 10 the machines will be ready to dispatch to 842 polling stations in North Goa,” said Gopal Parsekar, Additional Collector North.
The elections will be held on April 23. Meanwhile, BJP candidate for North Shripad Naik is only one candidate who has filed nomination on Friday so far since the issue of notification i.e. March 28.
Congress candidate Girish Chodankar has planned to file his nomination on Monday.
The last date of filing nominations is on April 5 while the withdrawal date is till April 8.
Meanwhile, all teams handling various tasks related to polling are working in full swing, even on Sundays.
The polling personnel requisitioned from various departments have been imparted training. Vehicles have also been requisitioned from various government departments and some have also been hired. The awareness programme organised by the Election Commission is getting a good response. The EC has arranged a special awareness and training programme for the hearing and
visually impaired on April 1 at SCERT Porvorim.
