Staff from the Indian Election Commission will hike for a whole day across rugged mountainous terrain in the northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state to ensure that a single voter can cast her ballot in next month’s polls.

Commission officials said it will dispatch 10 polling officers, security personnel and porters, who will likely take 11 hours to reach Malogam village, 24 miles from the nearest road head, to enable Sokela Tayang to vote in the parliamentary and provincial elections on 11 April.

The 39-year old housewife lives with her three children in the remote mountain village bordering Tibet, over 300 miles north of the state capital Itanagar.

“Officials will need to man the polling booth from 7am till 5pm on voting day, as we don’t know when Sokela will come and vote” said deputy chief electoral officer Liken Koyu.

She cannot be forced to cast her vote early, he added. During the previous 2014 parliamentary elections the same Malogam polling booth had two voters, including Ms Tayang.

However, her husband recently transferred his name to another polling booth in the same constituency, and Ms Tayang is the solitary voter.