The Election Commission (EC) has appointed IPS officer Ashutosh Shukla as the Director General of Police (Elections) in Tamil Nadu to take charge of election-related works involving the state police immediately.
Police officials in the State would be reporting to Mr. Shukla, who was heading the Prisons Department.
In a first, Election commission will set up a polling station at Institute of Mental Health, Chennai for the reformed and family-abandoned 192 people.
The Institution was started in 1795 when the East India company appointed Surgeon Valentine Conolly to be in charge of a “House for accommodating persons of unsound mind.”