{"id":616943,"date":"2023-11-13T10:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=616943"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T06:25:18","slug":"iaf-choppers-made-404-sorties-to-ferry-polling-staff-in-naxal-hit-bastar-during-chhattisgarh-phase-1-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iaf-choppers-made-404-sorties-to-ferry-polling-staff-in-naxal-hit-bastar-during-chhattisgarh-phase-1-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"IAF choppers made 404 sorties to ferry polling staff in Naxal-hit Bastar during Chhattisgarh phase-1 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raipur: The Indian Air Force conducted 404 sorties with eight MI-17 choppers for six days, ferrying polling parties along with voting machines in Naxal-affected Bastar division during the recently held first phase of Chhattisgarh polls, a senior election official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve constituencies of Bastar division were among 20 assembly segments in Chhattisgarh that went to the polls in the first phase on November 7. A high voter turnout of 78 per cent was recorded in these 20 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The Chhattisgarh Chief Electoral Officer wrote on X on Friday, \u201cDefying all challenges, the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted 404 sorties with Eight MI 17s, securely ferrying 853 polling team members to and from 43 locations, enabling a successful electoral process in a tough LWE-affected region. Salute to the India Air Force.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raipur: The Indian Air Force conducted 404 sorties with eight MI-17 choppers for six days, ferrying polling parties along with voting machines in Naxal-affected Bastar division during the recently held first phase of Chhattisgarh polls, a senior election official said on Friday. Twelve constituencies of Bastar division were among 20 assembly segments in Chhattisgarh that went to the polls in the first phase on November 7. A high voter turnout of 78 per cent was recorded in these 20 seats. The Chhattisgarh Chief Electoral Officer wrote on X on Friday, \u201cDefying all challenges, the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted 404 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}