Massive sanitation drive for Bihar polls: CEC

September 25, 2020 12:49

The Election Commission of India holds a press conference to announce the dates for the Bihar elections. This is the first elections to be held amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic in India.

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora says the term of assembly in the state of Bihar is due to expire on 29th November, 2020. Bihar assembly has a strength of 243 members, of whom 38 seats are reserved for SCs and two for ST.

The CEC says over 7 lakh hand sanitiser units, about 46 lakh masks, 6 lakh PPE kits, 6.7 lakh units of faces-shields, 23 lakh (pairs of) hand gloves arranged. For voters specifically, 7.2 crore single-use hand have been arranged.

"As days and months passed and COVID-19 showed no signs of abetting, it was realised that some way would have to be found to balance the democratic rights of the electorate while also making sincere and systematic efforts to protect health and safety of people," CEC Arora says.

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