{"id":58100,"date":"2019-01-23T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=58100"},"modified":"2019-01-23T01:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:54:52","slug":"arunachal-requires-60-companies-of-capf-for-peaceful-election-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/01\/23\/arunachal-requires-60-companies-of-capf-for-peaceful-election-cs\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal requires 60 companies of CAPF for peaceful election: CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 22:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh requires 60 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to conduct peaceful and successful elections in the state.<br \/>\nChief Secretary Satya Gopal said this during a video conference with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Sunil Arora from the CS&#8217;s conference hall here on Tuesday.<br \/>\nInforming the CEC of the latest status of the election preparedness in the state, the CS said &#8220;expenditure sensitive constituencies have also been identified, and measures will be taken to check illegalities.&#8221;<br \/>\nGopal also submitted before the CEC specific challenges like foot march to far-flung polling stations, communication bottlenecks, and boundaries\/borders with Assam and Myanmar, which he said are major hurdles to conducting free and fair elections.<br \/>\nTo check infiltration and unwanted activities from the neighbouring state and Myanmar, the CS emphasized on strengthening surveillance on the Indo-Myanmar border and the boundaries with neighbouring Assam.<br \/>\n&#8220;Transfer-posting of officers and officials as per the directives of the ECI in both administrative and police departments have been taken into account,&#8221; the CS informed.<br \/>\nGopal also committed to post sufficient administrative officers within the first week of February in districts with severe shortages of officers.<br \/>\n&#8220;Transfer of the very few left-out senior administrative and police officers from their home districts will be done immediately,&#8221; he said, and added that the proposal for appointment of election observers and nodal officers under various categories has also been sent to the ECI.<br \/>\nArora sought weekly progress report on the election preparedness of the state.<br \/>\nDGP SBK Singh, Principal Home Secretary AC Verma, Chief Election Officer Kaling Tayeng, IGP Sunil Garg, DIG K Kaming, and Tax &amp; Excise Link Commissioner NT Glow were also present during the video conference. (CSO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 22: Arunachal Pradesh requires 60 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to conduct peaceful and successful elections in the state. Chief Secretary Satya Gopal said this during a video conference with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India Sunil Arora from the CS&#8217;s conference hall here on Tuesday. Informing the CEC of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}