Gorkha Establishes All-Female Polling Station for Election Management

Gorkha. The Office of the Chief Election Officer has assigned leadership of one polling station at the City Hall polling center in Gorkha headquarters to female staff. At the City Hall polling center located in Naya Bazaar, Gorkha Municipality-7, one of the two polling booths, Booth 'A', has been designated as a 'Model Booth' where the polling officer, all staff, security personnel, and volunteers are exclusively women.

According to the Office of the Chief Election Officer, the City Hall polling center, which has 700 voters, consists of two polling stations. Chief Election Officer Bishnu Prasad Gautam expressed confidence that the female leadership, overseeing the polling station with a polling officer, assistant polling officers, support staff, volunteers, and auxiliary staff all being women, will successfully conduct the election in a peaceful environment.

He stated that Simran Kafle, a Public Health Administrator from the Provincial Public Health Office Gorkha, is leading a team of six female employees at this polling center.

Chief Election Officer Gautam informed that the team includes Deputy Polling Officer Devi Kumari Sharma, a Nayab Subba from the Gorkha District Court; Assistant Staff members Indira Baral, a Women Development Inspector from Barpak Sulikot Rural Municipality; Sunita Thapa, a Social Mobilizer from Sahid Lakhan Rural Municipality; and Binita BK, a teacher from Dhungagade Basic School. Furthermore, he added that the auxiliary staff member is Shanta Thapa, an office assistant from the District Government Attorney's Office.

Police Superintendent Bharat Bikram informed that security personnel and election police at this polling station will also be deployed under the command of a female Police Assistant Inspector. Chief Election Officer Gautam stated that the policy to operate one polling station as a model center out of the 333 polling stations across the district was made to encourage the empowerment of women leadership.

Gorkha, which has two constituencies, has 333 polling centers, comprising 331 permanent and two temporary centers across 225 polling stations. The Office of the Chief Election Officer stated that approximately 1,992 staff members have been deployed, with a minimum of six staff members per polling station. The office has already completed orientation programs for 666 polling officers and assistant polling officers on Monday and Tuesday.