Hoshiarpur - Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer Komal Mittal presided over and General Observer 2003 batch Tamil Nadu Cadre IAS officer Dr R Anandkumar in the presence of representatives of all political parties in the presence of representatives of all political parties EVMs and VVPATs for Lok Sabha Elections-2024. Randomization was performed. The District Election Officer said that in the presence of the representatives of the political parties, on the instructions of the Election Commission, the EVM and VVPAT machines completed the process of randomization with the software developed by the Chief Election Commission. has gone He said that the distribution of machines was done in a completely transparent manner through the EVM management system of the Election Commission. The representatives of the political parties expressed their satisfaction during the entire process which took place under videography.

           The District Election Officer said that a total of 4706 ballot units, 2353 control units and 2549 VVPATs have been allotted through randomization. He said that according to the 1963 polling stations of Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha constituency, two ballot units, one control unit and one VVPAT machine have been provided at each polling station. He said that in the randomization of voting machines, 20 percent more ballot units, 20 percent control units and 30 percent more VVPAT reserves have been given to all assistant returning officers of Lok Sabha constituencies in addition to the number of polling stations in their assembly segments.
He said that 542 BAY, 271 CU and 293 VVPAT machines have been allotted to Sri Hargobindpur assembly constituency for 226 polling booths.
420 BU and 210 CU and 227 VVPAT machines for 175 polling booths to Bhulath,
544 BU, 272 CU and 295 VVPAT machines for 227 polling booths of Phagwara,
602 BU, 301 CU and 326 VVPAT machines for 251 polling booths in Mukerian,
  536 BU, 268 CU and 291 VVPAT machines for 224 polling booths in Dasuha,
530 BU, 265 CU and 287 VVPAT machines for 221 polling booths of Urmur,
528 BU, 264 CU and 286 VVPAT machines for 220 polling booths in Sham Churasi,
492 BU, 246 CU and 266 VVPAT machines were allotted for 241 polling booths of Hoshiarpur.
After the second randomization of voting machines, the lists of polling station wise allotted machines and reserve machines were given to the representatives of Dasuha candidates/election agents.

           The District Election Officer said that after the second randomization, under the leadership of Assistant Returning Officers, the engineers of BEL Company will commission (prepare) the voting machines on May 23 and 24.
He said that the commissioning of voting machines of Vidhan Sabha Constituency Sri Hargobindpur at Baba Namdev University College, Kishankot (Ghuman) Mehta Road Tehsil Hargobindpur District Gurdaspur,
Bhulath's Guru Nanak Prem Karamsar College Nadala Tehsil Bhulath District Kapurthala,
  Guru Nanak College of Phagwara Sukhchain Sahib Phagwara District Kapurthala,
SPN College of Mukerian, Mukerian District, Hoshiarpur,
Dasuha Library Hall GTB Senior Secondary School Dasuha District Hoshiarpur,
GKSM College Tanda Hoshiarpur of Urmur, Multi Skill Development Center ITI Hoshiarpur of Shamchurasi,
Hoshiarpur Riyat-Bahra Group of Institute Dental Block Counting Hall Chandigarh Road Hoshiarpur
And the commissioning of voting machines of Chabewal Vidhan Sabha Constituency will be at Room No. B-204, 1st Floor Engineering Block Riyat-Bahra Group of Institute Hoshiarpur.
In this regard, he appealed to all the candidates/appointed election agents and representatives of political parties and said that they must be present at the time of commissioning on the said dates.

           Komal Mittal also informed the representatives of the political parties about the schedule of the Lok Sabha elections by the Election Commission of India. He said that according to the schedule, the polls will be held on June 1, 2024 and the counting of votes will be held on June 4, 2024. On this occasion, Tehsildar Sarabjit Singh, Tehsildar Hoshiarpur Gureswak Chand, Election Kanugo Deepak Kumar, Lakhveer Singh, Megha Mehta and Ankleshwar Bharti from Social Welfare Front, Rajnish Tandon from Indian National Congress, Independent candidate Davinder Singh, Hardeep Singh from National Justice Party, BJP Bhushan Kumar Sharma from Bahujan Samaj Party, Honey Azad from Bahujan Samaj Party, Hans Raj from Much Mukti Party and independent candidate Sonu Singh were also present.