Bihar: Voting Begins for the First Phase of Gram Panchayat Elections in Gaya

GG News Bureau

Gaya, 24^th Sep. Voting has begun for the first phase of Gram Panchayat elections in Gaya.

Booth number 104, 105 magistrate Naveen Kumar said, “The specialty of this booth is that it is a pink booth. All staff are women. Voting has started, security arrangements have also been made.

Voting for 4,647 posts is scheduled to be held in 12 blocks in 10 districts in the state. According to the Election officials 14,000 people have been deployed at 2,119 polling stations of Kaimur, Rohtas, Gaya, Nawada, Aurangabad, Jehanabad, Arwal, Munger, Jamui and Banka.  Electronic voting machines (EVMs) and ballot papers are both being used for voting.

As per the notification by the state election commissioner Deepak Prasad in the month of August, the 11-phase election for more than 2.55 lakh representatives of the three-tier panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) will end on December 12.

Counting of votes will be done on the following day of polling of each phase of the election. About 6.39 crore voters are expected to vote.