Bhubaneswar: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday announced the deployment of 470 central observers to oversee the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections and eight bye-elections in various states, including the Nuapada Assembly segment in Odisha.

Of the total observers, 320 are officers from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 60 from the Indian Police Service (IPS), and the remaining 90 belong to services such as the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), and Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS).

The observers will monitor the Bihar Assembly elections along with bypolls in Jammu and Kashmir (Budgam and Nagrota constituencies), Rajasthan (Anta constituency), Jharkhand (Ghatsila constituency), Telangana (Jubilee Hills constituency), Punjab (Tarn

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