LAHORE: The city district administration on Tuesday appointed 60 monitoring officers to supervise the arrangements for smooth polling process in 14 national and 30 provincial assembly constituencies in Lahore on Feb 8.

In each PA constituency, two officers have been appointed for monitoring related duties, whereas all 60 will report to District Monitoring Officer Umer Maqbool who is working under Deputy Commissioner/District Returning Officer Rafia Haidar.

The plan to install nearly 10,000 CCTV cameras in Lahore has been finalised. Up to 305 cameras would be installed at highly sensitive buildings, followed by 1,120 each at highly sensitive polling stations and corridors, 4,451 at polling booths, 44 at the offices of returning officers and 217 at other locations.

“Hope all other arrangements would also be completed very soon,” commented an official while talking to Dawn on Tuesday.

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2024

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