Imphal, December 30 2011: Altogether 350 companies of security forces including Central para military forces and State armed police would be used in the 10th Manipur Legislative Assembly elections scheduled to be held on January 28 .The Central paramilitary forces would start arriving from January 10 .
A communique sent by the Ministry of Home Affairs to the State Government yesterday informed that 350 companies of Central paramilitary forces and State armed police would be used in the Manipur election.
Subsequently, the DGP has drawn up deployment plans.
Altogether 284 companies of Central paramilitary forces including BSF, CRPF, CISF, STBP and RPF would be used in the election.
Moreover, 66 companies of State armed police from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Mizoram, Orissa, Tripura and Jharkhand would also be deployed during the elections.
200 companies of security forces would arrive at Imphal on January 10, 50 companies on January 15 and the remaining 100 companies would be inducted for election duty on January 22 .
Meanwhile, the State Police Headquarters has drawn up deployment plans for the Central paramilitary forces who are arriving here on January 10 .
As per the deployment plan, 40 companies of Central paramilitary forces may be deployed in Churachandpur district, 30 companies in Ukhrul district, 50 companies in Senapati, 30 companies in Tamenglong, 20 companies in Chandel, 50 companies in Imphal West, 45 companies in Imphal East, 55 companies in Thoubal and 35 companies in Bishnupur district.
Notably, Income Tax officials who have been deputed for expenditure monitoring work in connection with the Assembly elections have already arrived at Imphal and joined duty.
General observer, expenditure observer and police observer may arrive here on January 4
~The Sangai Express
