As many as 221, 000 employees are going to be deployed across 165 constituencies throughout the country for conducting the House of Representatives elections to be held on March 5.

The employees are to be deployed at 23,112 voting centers in 165 electoral constituencies and 143 temporary voting centers for proportional voting 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 centers with over five hundred voters and eight staff members in centers with fewer than 500 voters.

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

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