DC Hephsiba Rani Korlapati Thanks Voters, officials and Political Parties for Smooth Polling process
Udupi: The Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer of Udupi-Chikkamaglauru Lok Sabha Constituency Hephsiba Rani Korlapati on Saturday, May 25 thanked the voters, polling, counting and security staff, candidates and political parties for their cooperation in organizing free, fair and peaceful elections for the Udupi-Chikkamaglauru Parliamentary seat.
A large number of officials kept a strict vigil over the entire situation especially during the polling hours by visiting the key and vulnerable polling booths and ensuring people that they do not face any sort of problems in exercising their franchise during the polls.
DC Hephsiba Rani Korlapati also thanked the wise voters of the district for upholding the glorious tradition of exercising their franchise freely by casting their votes without any fear. She said that it was due to the voter’s awareness and participation that a massive polling turnout was achieved in the constituency. The huge participation of the voters reflected the love the citizens of Udupi-Chikkamagluru constituency have for their democratic rights, she added.
Hephsiba Rani Korlapati further said that the polling was completed peacefully and there was no report of any untoward incident from any polling booth in the parliamentary constituency. She said that no major incident of violence was reported during the voting and that peace and harmony were maintained during the counting process adding that the district administration had made elaborate security arrangements for the counting of votes and the votes were counted in a professional manner by the counting staff.
Speaking about the preparation to tackle natural calamities Hephsiba Rani Korlapati said, “Since there is a delay in NDRF reaching the natural calamity-hit areas in cases of emergency, the state government has given permission to deploy NDRF teams in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts before the onset of monsoon. The NDRF team has already been stationed at Suratkal to benefit both Udupi and Dakshina Kannada and the team will be arriving in Udupi by next week”.
She also said that the district administration has decided to introduce a special Mobile compliant app to respond immediately in the Udupi CMC limits. The Mobile App ‘Udupi Help.com’ is under construction and will be available in a week in the Google Play Store. The Citizens of Udupi CMC limits can register their complaint related to Natural calamity through this Mobile App and the concerned departments will address the problem within 6 hours.
Nisha James Superintendent of Police Udupi District and Vidya Kumari Additional DC were also present.