Dhaka: The voting equipment have been sent to several polling centres since Monday morning ahead of the three city corporation elections scheduled to hold on Tuesday.
A number of law-enforcers are also patrolling the cities to assure peaceful environment during the polling.

The voters of Dhaka North City Corporation will cast their votes at around 1,093 polling stations. A total of eight distribution centres have launched for issuing the voting materials among the polling stations.

The presiding officers are collecting ballot boxes, ballot papers, seals and other materials allocated for their centres from the assistant returning officers of the distribution centres. 

Dhaka North returning officer Mohammad Shah Alam is inspecting the distribution centres.

However, seven distribution centres have been established for issuing the voting equipment for 889 polling stations of Dhaka South City Corporation.

A total of over 60lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise during the city polls of Dhaka North and South and Chittagong cities in around 2,500 polling stations.

A total of 1,180 candidates are in the fray in the contest of three cities.

The election commission has marked most of the polling centres as risky.
Around 82,000 law enforcers from Police, Rab, Ansar, BGB and Coast Guard have been deployed on election duty for four days.

Three battalions of Bangladesh Army will stay inside the cantonment as reserve force.