Number of flying squads being increased in Puducherry

The number of flying squads would be raised shortly in Puducherry region having 23 of the 30 Assembly constituencies to ensure free, fair and peaceful polling.
District Collector cum District Election Officer P Jawahar told reporters here today that presently each of the eight returning officers was equipped with three flying squads.
The Election Commission of India during its recent visit to Puducherry directed that the flying squads be raised in the region.
He said that the election department has now decided to deploy additional squads raising the strength to 72 ina phased manner at the rate of nine squads (against the usual number of three squads) for each of the eight returning officers.

He said that the election authorities had identified that Nellithope, Orleanpet, Lawspet and Kamaraj Nagar segments in Puducherry region needed to be under intensive scanner as they were more sensitive constituencies and hence the number of squads would be raised particularly for these four segments.