Jammu Tawi, April 29 -- The State Election Commission (SEC) has pulled up its socks for holding the much delayed Panchayat elections in the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as its has decided to buy forty thousand (40,000) more ballot boxes for these elections and these will be bought through proper tendering process.
Already, 30,000 ballot boxes have been sent to different districts of J&K for smooth conduct of Panchayat elections.
"We felt the need of 40,000 more ballot boxes apart from the 30,000 already sent to different districts of J&K for holding the Panchayat elections in the J&K UT," sources informed the Northlines.
They said that the 40,000 ballot boxes will be bought by way of global tendering process through Ge...