Dimapur, Jan. 27 (EMN): The 2nd phase of training on Election Expenditure Monitoring Mechanism (EEMC) was conducted in the deputy commissioner’s conference hall in Longleng on Jan. 27.
The DPRO issued updates about the event on Sat.
The training was attended by the election expenditure cell, police officer in charge of flying squads, static surveillance team, MCMC team, ‘videography’ surveillance team and political agents of all intending candidates / parties.
Briefing on the activities of the EEMC for smooth conduct of election, the district election officer (DEO) of Longleng John Tsulise Sangtam appealed to all the teams to coordinate. The success and failure of election will depend on the performance of the teams and committees headed by the district election officer, he said.
The DEO also informed that election expenditure observer will be arriving on Jan. 30 and all expenditure of the candidates will be monitor by the EEMC which is very vital for free and fair elections.
For clean elections in the state, DEO said the ECI have instructed for use of CCTV and ‘videography’ team to monitor the activities of election, attachment of GPS to flying squads team to check movement of FS team and installation of webcasting and offline recording system in the polling stations. Therefore, he urged the officials engaged in election duties to discharge their duty with utmost sincerity to avoid victimize.
Sangtam appealed to the political agents / parties to adhere strictly to the guidelines of the ECI and maintain proper expenditure register and submit day to day expenditure of the candidates to the expenditure monitoring cell.
Handbook on election and copies of various annexure were also distributed to the parties and team leaders of committees.
After the event, the team visited the Expenditure Monitoring cell at the deputy commissioner’s office.
