Paid holiday, app to track queue to ensure good turnout, says EC

Paid holiday, efficient queue management systems, deployment of 100,000 personnel across 13,766 polling stations, mobile app for crowd updates and setting up of 70 all-women polling stations are among the key arrangements in place to ensure maximum turnout for the Delhi Assembly elections on February 5, Delhi's chief electoral officer (CEO) R Alice Vaz said on Friday.

- Alok KN Mishra

NEW DELHI:

To be sure, the Delhi CEO in January 2025 had issued a notification allowing all private and government employees who are voters in Delhi-except essential services-to avail of a paid leave to exercise their right to vote.

There are 699 contestants in the fray, with counting of votes scheduled for February 8. The CEO office has declared paid holiday on February 5 to facilitate maximum voter turnout.

"Paid holiday has been declared on February 5, which will also be a dry day. To motivate residents to vote, various restaurants in Delhi have agreed to offer exclusive discounts to voters who show their voting ink mark on the next day of poll," a poll official said.