Ranchi, Nov 3 (PTI) Adequate security deployment would be made during the five-phase assembly elections beginning on November 25 in Naxal-affected Jharkhand, Chief Election Commissioner Navin B Chawla said here today.

"They (security personnel) are in adequate number," Chawla told a press conference when asked about the security arrangements during elections in the Naxal-affected districts.

On how the EC would instill confidence among rural voters if they got scared to turn up at the polling booth in the face of Maoist threat, he cited the example of Naxal-affected Gadchiroli where 67 per cent voting was registered during the recently concluded Maharastra assembly polls.

Days ahead of the polling in Gadchiroli, the Maoist had attacked a police convoy inflicting heavy casualties.