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The Election Commission (EC) is set to hold an inter-ministry meeting as it attempts to complete an extensive list of the work that remains ahead of the 13th national parliamentary elections.
About two dozen issues are on this list, including adjusting exam schedules in various educational institutions to avoid the polls, contingency plans for different weather conditions during voting, preventing the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), postal voting, ensuring power supply, and the transportation of voting equipment, reports bdnews24.com.
The EC, led by Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin, will raise these issues in the first pre-planning inter-ministry meeting on Thursday with the heads of all ministries and departments related to the elections.
The parliamentary elections are to be held in the first half of February before Ramadan next year. The Election Commission is already making preparations based on the announced roadmap. The final schedule for the polls is to be announced in the first half of December.
The EC, the constitutional body responsible for organising the elections, has already held a meeting on law and order.
All of the essential work of the EC is scheduled to be completed in October. The postal voting system app is to launch in mid-November for registration. The EC will also be holding discussions with political parties.
Stating that 90 percent of the work for the polls is complete, Election Commission Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said on Monday: "The polling stations have been finalised. All the work is progressing according to the roadmap or action plan. In terms of percentages, we can say that we are 90 to 95 percent ready."
Approximately 127.5 million voters can go to nearly 43,000 polling centres across the country to cast their ballots at 245,000 voting booths in the general election.
Alongside 900,000 – 1 million election officials, 700,000 – 800,000 personnel from law enforcing agencies will be deployed to provide security.