By Tricity News
Chandigarh July 12, 2021:- The Election committee of the PGI
employees Union (Non-Faculty) Regd. No. 156 of 1978 has declared elections for
14.07.2021 in the meeting held on 28.06.2021 and keeping in view the permission
still awaited for venue for holding the elections due to CoVID-19 instructions.
The Election committee has decided to
go ahead with the elections virtually through whatsapp by sending the duly
filled postal ballot paper on mobile number of the Chief Electoral Officer duly
filed by the voters keeping in view the necessity of Elections for the ongoing
period and dissolving of earlier panel dated 02.06.2021.
This is for the first time in the
history that inspite of the various constraints / hurdles due to pandemic
epidemic COVID-19 and maintaining the precautionary measures, virtual postal
elections have been declared for 14.07.2021.
All the eligible voters will now be
able to send their ballot paper through whatsapp on 14.07.2021 within
stipulated time frame 08:30 A.M. till 05:00 P.M. and the ballot papers will be
bearing proper details of the employee authenticating the actual voter casting
the vote. This decision will ensure hassle free, pandemic precautionaries as
well as fool proof election procedure without engagement of the various
resources required for holding the elections.
