Utter darkness envelops busy road next to Tirunelveli counting centre during night

While preliminary arrangements are being made inside Tirunelveli Government Engineering College, the centre for counting of votes on May 4, no step has been taken by the Tirunelveli Corporation to replace the dead lights on the electric poles along the busy road next to this counting centre, leaving the northern side of this all-important place unsafe in the night.

As the Government Engineering College, Tirunelveli, is the counting centre for the votes to be polled in the upcoming Assembly elections, arrangements like creation of CCTV-fitted strong rooms to keep safely the EVMs used in the election, votes counting hall, installation of metal detectors at entrances of these counting halls, installation of flood lights in and around the engineering college, deployment of armed police personnel round-the-clock, erection of watch towers etc. are to be taken up shortly.