In a bid to ensure orderly and secure Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, the Election Commission of India calls for an unprecedented deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel. The Election Commission (EC) sought 3.4 lakh Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel for deployment in a phased manner during the Lok Sabha election and Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim. What EC said to MHAIn a communication to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the EC said the chief electoral officers of all the states and union territories have requested for the deployment of CAPFs for poll-related duties, such as area domination, confidence-building measures, poll day-related duties, guarding of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and strong room centres, counting centre security etc. during the elections. 920 Companies of CAPFs to be deployedA CAPF company comprises around 100 personnel. A maximum of 920 companies of CAPFs are expected to be deployed in West Bengal in a phased manner, followed by 635 companies in Jammu and Kashmir, 360 companies in Chhattisgarh, 295 companies in Bihar, 252 companies in Uttar Pradesh and 250 companies each in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab. CAPFs includeThe CAPFs are the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Sashatrsa Seema Bal (SSB) and National Security Guard (NSG).
