Prominent leaders of North East who are in the electoral fray in the first phase of polls -- from Union Minister Kiren Rijiju to Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi -- exercised their franchise early in the morning on Friday.
Voters were seen queueing up in front of their booths from 6 am onwards whereas the polling started at 7am.
He also urged the people to come out and exercise their franchise in large numbers.
The polling began in 24,370 polling stations at 7 am and will last till 6 pm.
Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai said on Friday that the Bharatiya Janata Party will register a historic victory in the state in the Lok Sabha elections.
The cooperative societies will act as an apex organisation for production, procurement, processing and distribution of quality seeds.
Chief Minister K Chandrsekhar Rao appointed A Santhi Kumari in place of incumbent Somesh Kumar who was directed to join the Andhra Pradesh government by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
"Rs 30 for the first fall of 1.5 km (upon downing the meter) and thereafter Rs 11 per km for every additional kilometre," the notification said.
Under the said scheme, acquiring banks will be provided financial incentives, for promoting Point-of-Sale (PoS) and e-commerce transactions using RuPay Debit Cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions (P2M) for the current financial year.
It is envisaged as a premier institute to develop capacities in states/UTs in the field of public health engineering, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene through training programmes.
