5000 employees to be assigned in Kathmandu

Kathmandu, Oct. 27: Employees have shown interest in being assigned in the polling booths in Kathmandu district under the upcoming CA election.

There are 10 constituencies and 311 polling booths in 742 centres in the district. The district has 259,352 women and 272, 736 men and 14 third gender voters.

Chief Election Officer Achyut Bista said the employees have shown interest and are requesting for polling booths closer for their residences.

He said selection of some 5,000 staffs has been started and training will start soon. On the other hand, the election officer’s office has been drawing the attention of the candidates for abiding by election code of conduct. There are 367 candidates here.

The office ordered UCPN-Maoist candidate Renu Dahal to remove her banner at Constituency No.1 saying it was against the code of conduct and monitoring is on, he said.
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