STATE GENERAL ELECTIONS TO LOK SABHA ELECTION MANAGEMENT PLAN ELECTION DEPARTMENT, HIMACHAL PRADESH ceohimachal.nic.in LOK SABHA STATE ELECTION MANAGEMENT PLAN GENERAL ELECTIONS TO LOK SABHA 2019 INDEX Part Title Page No 1 Basic information 1 2 Key Official information 21 3 Calendar of Activities 31 4 Training Plan 39 5 Material & EVM Management 61 6 Requirement of Force &Deployment Plan 69 7 Nodal Officer in the Districts 73 8 AMFs & EMFs at Polling Stations 87 9 Manpower Management 89 10 Election Expenditure Monitoring & MCC 93 11 Critical &Vulnerable Polling Stations 99 12 Ballot paper & Postal Ballot Paper 131 13 Polling Party Dispatch Plan 135 14 SVEEP 139 15 Election Planner 179 Part – 1 Basic Information [1] District & AC-Wise Map of the State [2] Basic Data about the State Area 55,673 Sq Km 68,64,602 Population Census 2011 Male-34,81,873 Female-33,82,729 Population Density 123 per Sq Km Districts 12 Sub-divisions 71 Tehsils and Sub-Tehsils 158 Kanungo Circles 241 Patwar Circles 2,333 Developments Blocks 78 Municipal Corporations 02 Municipal Councils 29 Nagar Panchayats 23 Cantonment Boards 07 Police Stations 127 Gram Panchayats 3,226 Villages 20,690 Total Parliamentary 1-Kangra, 2-Mandi, Constituencies 3-Hamirpur , 4-Shimla(SC) Total Rajya Sabha Seats 3 68 Assembly Constituencies General – 48, SC – 17, ST – 3 Polling Stations 7,723 Polling Stations Locations 6,997 (Urban – 462, Rural – 6,535) Total Sections in Electoral Roll 23,559 Average Number of Electors per 660 PS 68 ERO 52 for Single AC and 8 for Two ACs AERO 156 RO (For Parliamentary Elections) 4 ARO(For Parliamentary 98 Elections) BLOs 7,723 Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Jammu & Bordering States / Countries Kashmir, UP, China (Tibbet) Country Airports Shimla, Kangra & Kullu [3] Brief History of Himachal Pradesh After India became free in 1947, there was a demand in some quarters for the merger of Hill States with the East Punjab but it met with vehement opposition from the rulers and people. The PrajaMandal workers and the rulers had different opinions about the future of these hilly states. After a brief spell of hectic negotiation, the rulers and the PrajaMandal workers decided to inform Government of India to form a union of these small hill States with the name of Himachal Pradesh. In view of these events, the Central Government decided to integrate all these principalities into a single unit to be administered by Govt. of India through a Chief Commissioner. As a result, Himachal Pradesh came into being as a part ‘C’ State of the Indian Union on 15th April, 1948 by integration/merger together of 31 big and small hill states.These states were Baghat, Bhajji, Baghal, Bija, Balsen, Bushehar, Chamba, Darkoti, Deloth-Dhadi, Dhami, Ghund, Jubbal, Khaneti, Kyarkoti, Kumarsain, Kunihar, Kuthar, Mandi, Madhan, Mahlog, Mangal, Kot(Ratesh), Keonthal, Rawinigarh, Sangri, Sirmaur, Suket, Tharoch&Theog. All these areas at that time constituted four districts viz. Chamba, Mahasu, Mandi and Sirmour with an area of 27,169 square kilometres. In 1954, the neighbouring State of Bilaspur was integrated with Himachal Pradesh, thereby adding one more district with an area of 1167 square kilometres. Himachal Pradesh continued as a part ‘C’ State of the Indian Union till 1956 when the State’sReorganisation Commission submitted its recommendations to abolish the categorisation of states as part A, B, C, etc. and recommended the merger of all part `C' states either with the adjoining states of higher status or to maintain these independently as union territories till a further decision was taken. Himachal Pradesh continued to exist as a Union Territory till the conferment of statehood on 25th January 1971. In 1960, the border Chini tehsil of Mahasu district was carved out as a separate administrative unit and district Kinnaur was formed raising the total number of districts to six. On 1stNovember, 1966, the then Punjab State was reorganised with the formation of Haryana as a separate state and merger of the then Kullu, Kangra, Shimla and some hilly areas of Hoshiarpur district and Dalhousie of Gurdaspur district into Himachal Pradesh constituting the four new districts viz. Kullu, Lahaul & Spiti, Kangra and Shimla in Himachal Pradesh and merging Dalhousie into Chamba district. With this addition, Himachal Pradesh comprised of ten districts, an area of 55,673 sq. Kilometres and a population of 28.12 lakh according to 1961 census. On 1stSeptember 1972, two more districts viz. Hamirpur and Una were created by trifurcation of Kangra district and the Mahasu and Solan districts were reorganised as Shimla and Solan districts. In this re-organisation, Shimla [4] town was re-organised with the erstwhile Mahasu district to form Shimla District. Geography of Himachal Pradesh Uttaranchal on the Southeast, Punjab on the west, China on the east, Haryana on the southwest, and Jammu and Kashmir on North of Himachal Pradesh. It extends from the latitudes 3022’40” North to 3312’40” North and longitudes 7545' 55" East to 7904' 20" East. The entire region of Himachal Pradesh is hilly with the altitude ranging from 350 meters to 7000 meters above sea level. The altitude increases from west to east and from south to north. Geographically, Himachal Pradesh can be divided into three distinct regions, the Shivalik or outer Himalayas, middle Himalayas or inner Himalayas, and greater Himalayas or the alpine zone. [5] Districts and Assembly Constituencies Districts Assembly Constituency 1-Churah (SC) 2-Bharmour (ST) 1-CHAMBA 3-Chamba 4-Dalhousie 5-Bhattiyat 6-Nurpur 7-Indora(SC) 8-Fatehpur 9-Jawali 10-Dehra 11-Jaswan-Pragpur 12-Jawalamukhi 2-KANGRA 13-Jaisinghpur(SC) 14-Sullah 15-Nagrota 16-Kangra 17-Shahpur 18-Dharamshala 19-Palampur 20-Baijnath (SC) 3-LAHAUL & SPITI 21-Lahaul & Spiti (ST) 22-Manali 23-Kullu 4-KULLU 24-Banjar 25-Anni (SC) 26-Karsog(SC) 27-Sundernagar 28-Nachan (SC) 29-Seraj 5-MANDI 30-Darang 31-Jogindernagar 32-Dharampur 33-Mandi 34-Balh (SC) [6] 35-Sarkaghat 36-Bhoranj (SC) 37-Sujanpur 6-HAMIRPUR 38-Hamirpur 39-Barsar 40-Nadaun 41-Chintpurni(SC) 42-Gagret 7-UNA 43-Haroli 44-Una 45-Kutlehar 46-Jhanduta(SC) 47-Ghumarwin 8-BILASPUR 48-Bilaspur 49-Sri Naina Deviji 50-Arki 51-Nalagarh 9-SOLAN 52-Doon 53-Solan(SC) 54-Kasauli(SC) 55-Pachhad(SC) 56-Nahan 10-SIRMOUR 57-Sri Renukaji(SC) 58-Paonta Sahib 59-Shillai 60-Chopal 61-Theog 62-Kasumpti 63-Shimla 11-SHIMLA 64-Shimla Rural 65-Jubbal-Kotkhai 66-Rampur (SC) 67-Rohru (SC) 12-KINNAUR 68-Kinnaur (ST) [7] Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Map [8] Parliamentary Constituency wise Assembly Constituencies Parliamentary No. & Name Of Assembly District Constituency Constituency 1-Churah (SC) 3-Chamba Chamba 4-Dalhousie 5-Bhattiyat 6-Nurpur 7-Indora (SC) 8-Fatehpur 9-Jawali 1-Kangra 12-Jawalamukhi 13-Jaisinghpur (SC) Kangra 14-Sullah 15-Nagrota 16-Kangra 17-Shahpur 18-Dharamshala 19-Palampur 20-Baijnath (SC) Chamba 2-Bharmour (ST) Lahaul & Spiti 21-Lahaul & Spiti (ST) 22-Manali 23-Kullu Kullu 24-Banjar 25-Anni (SC) 26-Karsog (SC) 27-Sundernagar 2-Mandi 28-Nachan (SC) 29-Seraj Mandi 30-Darang 31-Jogindernagar 33-Mandi 34-Balh (SC) 35-Sarkaghat Shimla 66-Rampur (SC) Kinnaur 68-Kinnaur (ST) 10-Dehra Kangra 11-Jaswan-Pragpur Mandi 32-Dharampur 36-Bhoranj (SC) 3-Hamirpur 37-Sujanpur Hamirpur 38-Hamirpur 39-Barsar 40-Nadaun [9] 41-Chintpurni (SC) 42-Gagret Una 43-Haroli 44-Una 45-Kutlehar 46-Jhanduta (SC) 47-Ghumarwin Bilaspur 48-Bilaspur 49-Sri Naina Deviji 50-Arki 51-Nalagarh Solan 52-Doon 53-Solan (SC) 54-Kasauli (SC) 55-Pachhad (SC) 56-Nahan Sirmour 57-Sri Renukaji (SC) 4-Shimla (SC) 58-Paonta Sahib 59-Shillai 60-Chopal 61-Theog 62-Kasumpti Shimla 63-Shimla 64-Shimla Rural 65-Jubbal-Kotkhai 67-Rohru(SC) P.C. Wise electors on Final Publication of PER-2019 No & Name of Number of Parliamentary Polling General Electors as on 21-01-2019 Constituency Stations Men Female Third Gender Total 1-Kangra 1874 676131 661699 8 1337838 2-Mandi 2079 619436 606829 3 1226268 3-Hamirpur 1764 655072 654387 14 1309473 4-Shimla (SC) 2006 633544 589712 34 1223290 State Total 7723 2584183 2512627 59 5096869 [10] Electoral Roll Information Electors as per roll on Electors as per Final Electors as per Final Assembly the basis of which last Publication of Roll as Publication of Roll as on Constituency General Election was on 26.03.2018 21.01.2019 held (2014) (w.r.t. 1.1.2018) (w.r.t. 01.01.2019) No Name Male Female Male Female Male Female CHAMBA 1 Churah(SC) 32652 30972 35132 33587 35954 34415 2 Bharmour(ST) 35073 32626 36887 34459 37264 34954 3 Chamba 36022 34913 38126 37332 38558 37774 4 Dalhousie 32605 30438 34173 32630 34772 33367 5 Bhattiyat 33868 32596 35769 35206 36340 35839 District Total 170220 161545 180087 173214 182888 176349 KANGRA 6 Nurpur 39454 36753 42417 40259 42993 40944 7 Indora (SC) 39809 36289 42630 39766 43333 40230 8 Fatehpur 37641 35794 40349 39776 40651 39911 9 Jawali 42059 40519 45280 44405 45976 44987 10 Dehra 35436 35764 37678 38256 38040 38450 11 Jaswan-Pragpur 35223 34205 36829 35991 37138 36226 12 Jawalamukhi 34059 33183 35921 35565 36310 35956 13 Jaisinghpur(SC) 35889 38400 37380 39568 37564 39638 14 Sullah 44508 45807 47076 48239 47579 48618 15 Nagrota 38419 37209 41119 40462 41753 41009 16 Kangra 36030 34471 38377 37271 39015 38025 17 Shahpur 37260 35886 40616 39317 41065 39634 18 Dharamshala 35325 32651 38076 36703 38289 37108 19 Palampur 33524 32158 35163 34341 35552 34598 20 Baijnath (SC) 38693 38008 40162 39415 40431 39650 District Total 563329 547097 599073 589334 605689 594984 [11] LAHAUL & SPITI Lahaul & Spiti 21 11281 11300 11487