Lok Sabha polls 2024:Â The Election Commission (EC) has sought 3.4 lakh Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel for deployment in a phased method throughout the upcoming Lok Sabha election and Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim.
The EC has additionally sought ample rolling shares with all acceptable amenities in the trains, thereby guaranteeing hassle-free mobilisation and a well timed motion of the forces to carry out election duties.
In a communication to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the EC has stated the chief electoral officers of all of the states and Union territories have requested for the deployment of CAPFs for poll-related duties, comparable to space domination, confidence-building measures, ballot day-related duties, guarding of digital voting machines (EVMs) and robust room centres, counting centre safety and many others. throughout the elections.
The fee has thought-about the requests made by the state CEOs and determined to deploy a most of round 3,400 firms of CAPFs in all states and Union territories in a phased method to make sure free, honest and peaceable elections, the communication stated.
Deployment of CAPFsÂ
A CAPF firm includes round 100 personnel. A most of 920 firms of CAPFs are anticipated to be deployed in West Bengal in a phased method, adopted by 635 firms in Jammu and Kashmir, 360 firms in Chhattisgarh, 295 firms in Bihar, 252 firms in Uttar Pradesh, and 250 firms every in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab.
The CAPFs are-
- Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
- Border Security Force (BSF)
- Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
- Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
- National Security Guard (NSG)
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