Webcasting of polling will be undertaken at 416 sensitive booths out of 19,444 polling booths in the 10 parliamentary constituencies in the third and final phase of election on April 24 (Thursday) in the state. Web cameras will keep watch over these critical polling booths and activities there will be visible on the polling day on the CEO’s websitewww.ceomadhyapradesh.nic.in.
The number of these critical polling booths in 20 districts is 2,901, which will be guarded by 1650 jawans of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF).
Arrangement of 2,601 micro observers, 401 still cameras and one thousand 584 video cameras has been made for critical polling booths. In this way, critical polling booths will be under observation of 5,002 micro observers, still cameras, videography teams and webcasting.
Dewas has maximum 290 critical polling booths followed by Ujjain 287, Indore 258, Sehore 240, Betul 208, Dhar 194, Vidisha 178, Ratlam and Khargone 170 each, Shajapur 158, Mandsaur 120, Raisen 103, Harda 98, Barwani 87, Burhanpur 62, Khandwa 53, Jhabua and Neemuch 67 each, Agar-Malwa 47 and Alirajpur 44.
Among the critical polling booths in districts where CAPF is to be deployed include 265 in Khandwa, 180 in Dewas, 176 in Indore, 170 each in Ratlam and Khargone.Webscasting will be undertaken through still cameras at maximum 60 polling booths in Ujjain, 51 in Mandsaur, 47 in Dewas, 33 in Raisen, 28 in Neemuch, 25 in Sehore, 21 in Indore, 20 each in Dhar and Betul, 17 in Shajapur, 15 in Vidisha, 13 in Harda, 11 in Khargone, 10 each in Ratlam, Burhanpur and Khandwa, 9 each in Jhabua and Barwani, 5 in Alirajpur and 2 in Agar-Malwa.
Maximum 250 video cameras will keep watch over critical polling booths in Dewas followed by 240 in Sehore, 227 in Ujjain, 208 in Betul, 110 in Shajapur, 76 in Indore, 75 in Vidisha, 70 in Khargone, 53 each in Khandwa and Burhanpur, 44 in Alirajpur, 37 in Barwani, 36 in Mandsaur, 35 in Ratlam, 30 in Raisen, 15 each in Neemuch and Harda and 10 in Dhar.