India, April 30 -- Around 8,500 officials will be engaged for the counting of votes on May 4 for 126 Assam Assembly constituencies that went to polls on April 9, the State's Chief Electoral Officer Anurag Goel said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, he said the Election Commission of India (ECI) is fully geared up to conduct the counting process smoothly and in a transparent manner. "We will have 40 counting centres spread across the 35 districts of Assam. Most of the districts have a single centre comprising all the constituencies in their jurisdictions," Goel said. Kokrajhar, Tinsukia and Jorhat will have two counting centres each, while Nagaon will have three such facilities, he said. "The ECI has deployed 126 counting observ...