KATHMANDU: Two hundred and twenty-one thousand employees are going to be deployed across 165 constituencies throughout the country for conducting the House of Representatives election to be held on March 5.

This many employees are to be deployed at 23,112 voting centres in 165 electoral constituencies and 143 temporary voting centres for proportional voting only in the 77 districts across the country.

Election Commission Assistant Spokesman Prakash Neupane, said that arrangements have been made to deploy nine staff members in voting centres with over five hundred voters and eight staff members in centres with fewer than 500 voters.

The Commission has stated that after training the election officers and assistant election officers assigned to polling centres, the election officers themselves will train other staff assigned to the centres.

The Election Commission has stated that election materials and ballot papers have reached all 165 electoral constituencies across the country by Thursday.