India
pti-Deepika S
Kolkata, Mar 06: At least 415 companies of central forces will be deployed for the first phase of polling on March 27 in West Bengal, a senior official said on Saturday.
So far, 200 companies of CAPF, including 30 companies of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and five companies each of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), have reached the state, he said.
“The rest 215 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be reaching the state in the next couple of days. These forces will be deployed in the assembly constituencies, which will be going to the polls in the first phase,” the official said.
Each company of the cetral forces consists of 100 personnel.
In the first phase, elections will be held in 30 assembly constituencies in five districts. Total 10,288 polling booths have been set up for the phase, he…