New Delhi, March 13 -- The Special Central Observers appointed by the Election Commission of India for assessment of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, met with the Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra at ECI Headquarters in New Delhi today.

A statement issued by PIB said that Chief Election Commissioner welcomed the Special Central Observers - Dr. Noor Mohammad, IAS (1977, retd), Vinod Zutshi, IAS (1982, retd) and A.S.Gill, IPS (1972, retd) and thanked them for having accepted this onerous and delicate assignment.

"The Commission will be regularly and on real time basis monitoring the situation in J & K and will also be taking inputs from all necessary quarters and decision re...