Chief Electoral Officer VL Kantha Rao has informed that monitoring of 20 per cent polling booths will be done by webcasting/ CCTV cameras during the Lok Sabha Election-2019.
Work orders have been issued by selecting three agencies through E-Tender to Vimukti Solution Pvt Ltd, Innovative View and Sanghvi Infotech Pvt Ltd for this work. The Lok Sabha election will be held in Madhya Pradesh in 4 phases.
Under the first phase, monitoring of 1354 polling booths by webcasting and similarly monitoring of 1354 polling booths will be done by CCTV cameras in 6 parliamentary constituencies.
Under the second phase, webcasting and CCTV cameras arrangements will be made for monitoring of 1530 polling booths and monitoring of 1530 polling booths respectively in 7 parliamentary constituencies.
Likewise, during the third phase, monitoring of 1821 polling booths by webcasting and monitoring of 1821 polling booths by CCTV cameras will be done in 8 parliamentary constituencies.
Under the fourth phase, monitoring of 1850 polling booths by webcasting and monitoring of 1850 polling booths will be done in 8 parliamentary constituencies.
In addition to the polling booths, monitoring of each vote counting room and campus will also be done by CCTV cameras on the day of vote counting.
Live monitoring of camera recording will be done. It is to be mentioned that the arrangement of webcasting and CCTV cameras were made at the selected polling booths during the Vidhan Sabha election.