1 GENERAL ELECTION LOK SABHA -2019 TAMILNADU DISTRICT ELECTION MANAGEMENT PLAN - 2019 DINDIGUL DISTRICT DEMP-2019 2 INDEX 1) DISTRICT PROFILE Page Nos Map 4 Details about Dindigul Parliamentary Constituency 5 Geographical Details About Dindigul District 6-11 2) ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURES District Election Officer, List of Asst.Returning Officers 12-17 and Nodal Officers for Dindigul Parliamentary Constituency District – Departmentwise Officers Telephone Nos. 18-24 List of Police Officials 25-29 3) Demography 30-31 4) ELECTOR DETAILS - 22 Dindigul Parliamentary Constituency Gender Ratio 32 Elector Population Ratio 33 District Age- cohort Chart 34 Information on Inclusion & deletion in current Electoral 35 Roll Voterwise Polling Station Details and Modification 36 Details Segmentwise Information on Epic and Photo Coverage 37 Progress Report of EPIC – Printing and Distribution 38 details Absent /Death / Shifted Electors Details 39 5) INFORMATION RELATING TO POLLING STATIONS Break-up details of Polling Stations / No of Voters 40-43 attached. Past Electoral Offences details 44 List of Critical Polling stations 45 List of Vulnerable Polling stations 46-68 6) POLLING PERSONNEL 69 Creation of Data Base for Polling Personnel 70 Training to Polling personnel 71 3 Polling Personnel welfare 72 7) POLLING MATERIALS AND EVMS EVMs / First Level checking / Material requirements 73-74 8) BALLOT PAPERS Ballot Paper requirement 75 Braille Ballot and Sticker 76 9) MOVEMENT PLAN 77-80 10) POLICE DEPLOYMENT PLAN 81 11) COMMUNICATION PLAN 81-88 12) COUNTING PLAN (i) Reception Centre 89-90 (ii) Counting Centre 91-93 13) EXPENDITURE 94 14) TEAMS 1) Flying Squad Teams 95-102 2) Static Surveillance Teams 103-110 3) Video Surveillance Teams 111-113 4) Video Viewing Teams 114-115 5) Accounting Teams 116-117 6) Zonal Teams 118-144 ANNEXURE Assembly wise Polling Stations Annexure-I 1. and Polling locations 2 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) Phone Numbers Annexure-II Zonal Officers and Route Chart of Assembly 3 Annexure-III Constituencies 4 Police Deployment Plan Annexure-IV 5 Communication Plan Annexure-V 4 Dindigul District Profile – District Map 5 DISTRICT PROFILE PREAMBLE Dindigul Parliamentary Constituency – An Introduction Dindigul district was formed on 15.09.1985 bifurcating the erstwhile Madurai District. After bifurcation Dindigul district having 3 Revenue Divisions 1.DINDIGUL, 2.PALANI, 3.KODAIKKANAL and 10 taluks, out of which one recently formed taluk is Gujiliamparai, which was formed bifurcating Vedasandur taluk. Dindigul distict is having one Corporation, 3 Municipalities, 23 Town panchayats, 14 Panchayat Unions and 306 Village Panchayats. Dindigul district comprised of 7 Assembly segments. 1.Dindigul Assembly Constituency, 2.Nilakottai Assembly Constituency(Reserve), 3.Natham Assembly Constituency, 4.Oddanchatram Assembly Constituency, 5.Palani Assembly Constituency (which includes taluk) 6.Athoor Assembly Constituency 7.Vedasandur Assembly Constituency. Dindigul Parlimentary constituency comprised of 6 Assembly segments only. Vedasandur Assembly constituency comes under Karur Parlimentary constituency. 6 GEOGRAPHY Dindigul district was carved out of the composite Madurai District on 15.9.1985 and the first District Collector was Thiru.M.Madhavan Nambiar, I.A.S. Dindigul District had the names of Dindigul Anna , Quaid-e-Milleth and Mannar Thirumalai. Dindigul, which was under the rule of the famous Muslim Monarch, Tippusultan, has a glorious past. The historical Rock Fort of this district was constructed by the famous Naik King Muthukrishnappa Naicker. It is located between 10° 05’ and 10° 09’ North Latitude and 77° 30’ and 78° 20’ East Longitude.. This district is bound by Erode, Coimbatore, Karur and Trichy districts on the North, by Sivaganga and Tiruchi District on the East, by Madurai district on the South and by Theni and Coimbatore Districts and Kerala State on the West. It is spread over on area of 6266.64 Sq. Km. It comprises of 3 Revenue Divisions, 9 Taluks and 14 Panchayat Unions, According to 2001 Census, its population is 19,23,014. 7 For a long time, Dindigul town has been associated with Iron locks, Iron safe of good quality and durability. A lock manufacturing unit under co-operative sector is functioning here. Another industry for which Dindigul is noted is Leather Tanning. This district is having a flourishing handloom industry at Chinnalapatti, which is located at 11 Kms away from Dindigul on the Madurai-Dindigul road. Art – Silk saris and Sungudi saris produced in Chinnalapatti are famous through out India. More than 1000 families are engaged in this Industry. Dindigul city which is an important wholesale market for Onion and Groundnut has the network of inter-district roads connecting Coimbatore, Erode, Tiruchi, Karur, Madurai and Sivaganga District. Educationally, Dindigul is a well developed and popular city. It has got many High and Higher Secondary Schools to its credit. St.Marry’s Higher Secondary School, a well disciplined Institution is one of the oldest institutions in this city. This district has the credit of having two Universities, viz, Mother Theresa University for Women at Kodaikanal and Gandhigram Rural Deemed University at Gandhigram. Also a number of Engineering Colleges, Arts & Science Colleges, Polytechnics, ITIs are available through-out the district. This district is privileged to have one of the “Six Celebrated Hill Abodes of “Lord Muruga” at Palani Hills, where the famous Dhandayuthapani Temple is situated on the hilly rock at a height of about 450 mts. 8 Thousands of pilgrims come down to this holy temple every day particularly during festival days, like “Thaipoosam, Adi-kiruthigai, Panguni Uthiram, Sura- samharam, Vaikasi-visagam and monthly Karthigai”. Provision of three Electric Winches and Rope Car are unique features of this temple. It facilitates the aged, children and the disabled to reach the temple in 8 minutes. The income of the temple which is the largest in the State is growing year by year. Besides this famous Murugan Temple, there is also another Murugan temple at Thirumalaikeni, 25 Km. away from Dindigul town which is becoming a growing pilgrim Centre. Abirami Amman temple in Dindigul town and Raja Kaliamman Temple at Thethupatti 20 km away from Dindigul are the other important Temples which attract thousand of pilgrims. Kodaikanal, a popular Summer Resort, located at an altitude of 2133 meters in the Western Ghats is the “Princess of Hill Stations”. A notable feature of this Hillock is “Kurunji” flowers blooming once in 12 years . Next blooming in the year 2030. Peranai and Sirumalai are the two fine picnic spots of this district. There are Nine dams viz, Palar Porundalar, Varathamanathi, Kuthiraiaru in Palani Block, Parappalar and Nanganchiar in Oddanchatram Block, Maruthanathi, Kamarajar Sagar in Athoor Block, Mavoor in Nilakottai Block, Kudaganar in Vedasandur Block augment irrigation facilities to agricultural fields in this district. Nilakkottai town is famous for Brass Vessels and Jewelry. Nilakottai Taluk is famous for the growing and marketing of flowers and Grapes. Oddanchatram is a noted market Centre for vegetables. Batlagundu is an important market Centre for Tomato. Pattiveeranpatti in Batlagundu Block is famous for Cardamom and Coffee curing enterprises. Railway Junction Airports Dindigul Madurai (75Km), Trichy (110Km) Coimbatore (152 Km) 9 Forest Forest are “Lungs of the Earth” plays a vital role in the economy of every nation. The Indian Forest Act divides Forests into three classes viz. Reserved Forest, Village Forest and Protected Forest. The main objective of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act (V of 1882) – (Received the assent of the Governor on the 17th September 1882 and of the Governor General on the 11th October 1882 and came into Force in 1st January 1993) – is to make provision for the protective and management of Forest in the State of Tamil Nadu. The main objective of this Act is to conserve the Forest of the State and also to regulate the extraction of Forest produce and Scientific lines. Forests help a nation in three ways – (1) Protective, (2) Productive and (3) Ecological. Dindigul Districts is covered with the Forest Areas as given below :- 1. Total Geographical Area (Hec.,) - 626664.00.0 2. Forest Area (Hec., ) - 1,46,661.55.7 3. Percentage of Forest Area - 23.40% Industry and Power In Dindigul District predominantly Agriculture is the major source for employment. However, in Vedasandur, Dindigul and Palani Taluks number of Spinning Mills have been established and it plays a major role for source of employment . Chinnalapatti is a renowned place for production of “sungidi“ cotton sarees and other handloom products. Apart from this many number of small scale industries also provide employment for skilled and semi skilled individuals. Financial Institutions: Nationalised Banks, Scheduled Banks are having more than 327 Branches all over the District, which provides all types of financial services. One District Central Co-operative Bank with branches in each taluk head quarters, and Primary Agricultural Co-operative Banks all over in the rural area play prominent role in providing financial services to the Agriculturists. (LDM, Dindigul Phone number 7708445967) 10 Public Health At Dindigul, one Head Quarters General Hospital is providing Health Care to the public apart from that health care is provided to the public all over the District through the following :- S.No : Dindigul Palani 1. No. of Primary Health Centre : 34 34 2. No. of Auxiliary Health Centre : 167 39 3. No. of Qualified Doctors : 117 112 4. No. of Pharmacies : 35 17 5. No. of Nurse (RCH) : 15 95 6. NCD : 2 31 7. No. of Village Health Nurse : 167 144 8. No. of Health Inspector : 94 74 Mobile Medical Teams are providing health care services in all the 14 blocks in the District. It is also ensured that the field level medical staff are available to attend any emergent need of medical assistance at anywhere in this District in connection with ensuing General Election to Tamil Nadu Lok sabha - 2019 LAW AND ORDER As far as Dindigul District is concerned, the district is by and large peaceful.