Focus shifts to counting centres

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, MAY 12. Over to the counting centres now. The 10 lakh and odd population of the Union Territory of Pondicherry are keenly looking forward to the results May 10 poll to the Pondicherry Assembly.

The Bharathidasan Government College for Women is the venue for counting of votes polled for the 21 constituencies in the Pondicherry region.

Votes polled in Karaikal (six constituencies), Mahe (two) and Yanam (one) would be counted in the respective regions simultaneously at the headquarters of the regions.

Ban on cell phones

Meanwhile, the Joint Chief Electoral Officer has said only officials connected with the election duty would be permitted to use cell phones at the counting centres. Others including presspersons would not have the facility as per the instructions of the Election Commission.

However, a couple of phone connections for presspersons had been installed at the counting centres and the numbers are 0413-22 88 44, 0413-22 94 25 and 0413-22 94 26.

The election authorities have also installed phones in Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam centres.

Nearly 94 per cent of voters who exercised their franchise in the polls had produced Electors Photo Identity Cards in the Union Territory. While in the Yanam constituency 97.45 percentage of voters produced ID cards, in Cottuchery it was 88.04 per cent.

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