As many as 208,820 people living in the areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers and who are eligible to vote at Thursday’s Presidential election have to travel anything between 20 to 100 kilometers to clustered polling stations in Army-controlled areas, Election Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake said Monday.
Voters in the Mulaitivu District, under the control of LTTE, have to travel such distance and hundreds of buses and other vehicles will be provided by the Elections Commissioner to enable them to commute to clustered stations in government controlled areas.
Around 20 million rupees will be spent as transport charges and for building cluster polling stations for those living in the LTTE controlled areas, Chief Accountant, Election Secretariat H. A. S. Hapuarachchi said.
A recent Supreme Court decision has ruled that cluster polling centres should be located at least 1,000 meters away from the Forward Defence Lines of the Sri Lankan armed forces.
According to the Assistant Commissioner of Elections, Batticaloa, T. Krishanan Anandalingam, there are 318,728 persons in the district eligible vote under the electoral register 2004 of which 80,443 living in LTTE controlled areas.
There will be 353 polling stations in the district including 88 cluster polling stations for voters in the LTTE controlled areas. Staff at these polling stations will be Tamil speaking public servants selected from the Colombo District.
Vanni District Assistant Commissioner A. S. Karunanidhi said there were 66,596 registered voters in the Mulativu District, of which 65,504 were living in the LTTE controlled area.
There will be 50 polling centres for this district with 49 cluster polling stations at Omanthai. Some of the voters here will also have travel about 100 kilometers to reach the polling stations.
The Mannar District has 78, 906 voters of which 16,131 are living in LTTE controlled areas. This district will have 67 polling stations of which 12 will be cluster polling stations.
Assistant Commissioner, Trincomalee District, M. M. S. K. Bandara, said there were 238,755 registered voters in the district with 278 polling station and 2 cluster polling stations at Kattaparichchan for 12,000 voters living in the LTTE held areas. These voters will have to travel up to 20 kilometers to reach their cluster polling stations.
There are 791,938 registered voters in the Jaffna District and 96,328 voters in the LTTE-controlled Kilinochchi District.
The total number of polling stations in Jaffna District with 224 cluster polling stations and 103 cluster polling stations for Kilinochchi Distirct located at Muhamalai and at Vadamarchchi East, Assistant Commissioner for Jaffna District P. Kuganathan said.
Voters in the Mulaitivu District, under the control of LTTE, have to travel such distance and hundreds of buses and other vehicles will be provided by the Elections Commissioner to enable them to commute to clustered stations in government controlled areas.
Around 20 million rupees will be spent as transport charges and for building cluster polling stations for those living in the LTTE controlled areas, Chief Accountant, Election Secretariat H. A. S. Hapuarachchi said.
A recent Supreme Court decision has ruled that cluster polling centres should be located at least 1,000 meters away from the Forward Defence Lines of the Sri Lankan armed forces.
According to the Assistant Commissioner of Elections, Batticaloa, T. Krishanan Anandalingam, there are 318,728 persons in the district eligible vote under the electoral register 2004 of which 80,443 living in LTTE controlled areas.
There will be 353 polling stations in the district including 88 cluster polling stations for voters in the LTTE controlled areas. Staff at these polling stations will be Tamil speaking public servants selected from the Colombo District.
Vanni District Assistant Commissioner A. S. Karunanidhi said there were 66,596 registered voters in the Mulativu District, of which 65,504 were living in the LTTE controlled area.
There will be 50 polling centres for this district with 49 cluster polling stations at Omanthai. Some of the voters here will also have travel about 100 kilometers to reach the polling stations.
The Mannar District has 78, 906 voters of which 16,131 are living in LTTE controlled areas. This district will have 67 polling stations of which 12 will be cluster polling stations.
Assistant Commissioner, Trincomalee District, M. M. S. K. Bandara, said there were 238,755 registered voters in the district with 278 polling station and 2 cluster polling stations at Kattaparichchan for 12,000 voters living in the LTTE held areas. These voters will have to travel up to 20 kilometers to reach their cluster polling stations.
There are 791,938 registered voters in the Jaffna District and 96,328 voters in the LTTE-controlled Kilinochchi District.
The total number of polling stations in Jaffna District with 224 cluster polling stations and 103 cluster polling stations for Kilinochchi Distirct located at Muhamalai and at Vadamarchchi East, Assistant Commissioner for Jaffna District P. Kuganathan said.
