Chattogram Regional Election Office started a five-day training for 16,163 election officials to hold Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) polls smoothly.
The training programme will run at nine centres in the port city, said CCC polls Returning Officer Muhammad Hasanuzzaman.
He said that 5,902 presiding officers and assistant presiding officers along with 10,268 polling officers are being trained.
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will be used in all the 735 polling centers in CCC elections.
Assistant Returning Officer Mohammad Humyun Kabir said that no-one will be allowed to carry out election duties without proper training.
The CCC election is scheduled for January 27.
A total of 236 aspirants are contesting the polls, including seven mayoral candidates.
There are 1,938,706 voters in the city corporation area.