Srinagar/Jammu, April 03: (Scoop News)- The Chief Election Commission of India has imposed a complete ban on smoking inside all Polling booths throughout the Country. Instructions to this effect were issued by the Election Commission of India in its Handbook for Presiding Officers.
Chapter IX Section 7.0 of the Handbook has directed all the Polling Officer to ensure that No smoking is allowed inside their polling stations. Chapter XXXIV Section 18 further instructs that neither the Polling Officer nor the Polling agents are allowed to smoke inside the Polling Station.
Recently, Chief Electoral Officer J&K Umang Narula had issued instructions to make all polling stations in J&K, no smoking zones. Pertinent to mention that J&K Voluntary Health Association, through its Executive Director A.M.Mir, has been campaigning to make all polling stations tobacco-free. Mir expressed his gratitude to the Chief Election Commissioner of India for declaring all polling stations in the Country as tobacco free, in the interest of the non-smoker voters.
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