Assembly elections are likely to be held in September-October this year.

According to a state government release, a presentation was made before the visiting ECI team on the work done by district collectors and district election officers during the Lok Sabha elections.

The ECI team gave instructions to the state and district officials regarding the work to be done for the upcoming assembly elections. It asked district collectors to set up polling stations in high-rise buildings and group cooperative housing societies with more than 200 houses in cities to increase the voting percentage.

Other instructions include running a drive to update the voter list and running a special summary revision program of the voter list to omit certain names and include names of new voters, setting up new polling stations and printing and distribution of voter cards. Is.

ECI team gave information regarding manpower, EVMs and VVPATs required for the upcoming elections.