Dhar Collector names nodal officers for Sardarpur's Dasai panchayat by-election

The three-tier panchayat by-election 2026 is to be held in constituency no. 1 (Dasai) of Janpad Panchayat Sardarpur in Dhar district. To ensure it is conducted properly, Collector and District Election Officer (Local Elections) Rajeev Ranjan Meena has appointed district-level nodal and assistant nodal officers. The order was issued in line with the election programme released by the secretary of the Madhya Pradesh State Election Commission, Bhopal.

The nodal officer for human resource management is Akhilesh Jain, Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat. Assisting him as assistant nodal officers are District Information and Science Officer Atul Kumar Chaudhary, District Education Officer Pushpendrasingh Saratya and Kalusingh Jamre, statistics officer of the Agriculture Department.

The nodal officers for election training are Akhilesh Jain and Parul Vyas Jain, Assistant Commissioner in the Tribal Affairs Department. The district-level master trainers are Subhash Kamdar, professor at Government Girls College, Dhar; Bhagwansingh Patel of Government Post Graduate College, Dhar; Ashish Sharma of Government Excellence Higher Secondary School No. 1, Dhar; Anup Mandloi of Government Polytechnic College, Dhar; and Kamalsingh Thakur of the District Institute of Education and Training, Dhar. Akhilesh Jain is also the nodal officer for essential arrangements at polling stations, management and voter awareness. The chief executive officer of the concerned janpad panchayat area has also been given responsibility.

Arrangements for food, snacks and POL are the responsibility of District Supply Officer Anand Gole. For maintaining law and order and ensuring compliance with the model code of conduct, Additional Collector Rajeev Keshav Pandey is the nodal officer and Additional Superintendent of Police Vijay Dawar is the assistant nodal officer. The sub-divisional officer (revenue), sub-divisional officer (police) and tehsildar of the area concerned have also been given responsibility.

Deputy Collector Saloni Agrawal has been given charge of traffic arrangements, election material and route charts. Additional Regional Transport Officer Hridesh Yadav and Superintendent of Land Records Radheshyam Dhakad will be her assistant nodal officers. Saloni Agrawal is also the nodal officer for the communication plan, with Ramniwas Budholia, District Programme Officer of the Women and Child Development Department, as assistant nodal officer. Ramniwas Budholia and Assistant Director (in charge) Praveen Sitole will handle the helpline and grievance redress.

For EVM management, Babita Sonekar (Malviya), Executive Engineer in the Public Works Department, is the nodal officer. Atul Kumar Chaudhary and Bhaskar Malviya, sub-divisional officer in the Public Works Department, have been made her assistant nodal officers. Videography and CCTV arrangements are with Shailendra Chouhan, General Manager in the Industries Department, along with Sandeep Gehlod, manager in the same department, as assistant nodal officer. Distribution of honorarium has been entrusted to Assistant District Pension Officer Dinesh Baghel, with Assistant Treasury Officer Gajanand Kanase as his assistant.

District Treasury Officer Astha Chourasia and Dinesh Baghel are the nodal officers for arrangements for ballot papers, ballot papers and dummy ballot papers. The returning officer of the janpad panchayat concerned has also been given responsibility. For counting management, Babita Sonekar (Malviya) will be nodal officer and Bhaskar Malviya assistant nodal officer.

District e-Governance Manager Prateek Yadav has been made assistant nodal officer for all activities relating to computerisation, the election notification and information technology. For medical safety measures, Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Anita Singare is the nodal officer and Civil Surgeon Dr Mukund Barman the assistant nodal officer. For power supply, Dadhichi Revadiya, superintending engineer of Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company, is the nodal officer and divisional engineer R.K. Rajelwal the assistant nodal officer.

Vijay Chourasia, Deputy Director in the Agriculture Department, has been given the task of preparing the information needed for training, meetings and the election observer, as nodal officer. Assistant Director Agriculture Sangeeta Tomar is his assistant nodal officer. Deepak Awasthi, Assistant Commissioner in the Excise Department, has been made responsible for finalising the arrangements required for the observer.

The Collector has directed all nodal officers to undergo training as per the fixed training programme and complete their assigned tasks on time. If needed, they may deploy supporting staff on their own authority, and they are to complete all election-related proceedings within the fixed time limit. The order has come into effect immediately.