Haryana Election Department will soon launch a mobile app for various election-related activities for the citizens of the state.
“The Election Department is working with an aim to propagate information related to ‘voter education, voter registration, voter motivation and encourage youth and citizens for active participation in voting related activities,” said a spokesman of Haryana Election Department.
He said that the state has been awarded the prestigious Skoch Award for IT initiative, Haryana Election Geographic Information System (HEGIS).
Among various IT initiatives of the Department, two initiatives have created a testimony to work towards better governance, the spokesman said.
He said that HEGIS, one of the initiatives, makes available comprehensive multi-layered GIS platform having the capability of superimposing any layer pertaining to parliamentary constituencies, assembly constituencies, district, blocks and villages.
In addition, detailed information of various government utilities are now readily available on the HEGIS portal. This GIS platform would be helpful in providing GIS location based analytics, planning, decision support systems and supporting in delivery of services during the pre, poll and post poll phase, the spokesman said.
He further said that the second IT initiative is the emerging Information Communication Technology called as Geo Fence Technology that has proprietary algorithm inbuilt around the social media platforms using which, the particular category of targeted spectators could be filtered and segregated and thus ensuring their identification or registration possible.
The Election Department has used this technology to identify the young voters especially in the age group of 18 to 21 years available in the defined geographic area, he added.
The spokesman also said that the impact and the outcomes of this initiative is much beyond the expectations of the Department and are highly appreciable among the stakeholders as the number of applicant responses received using Geo Fence Technology had been very high as compared to the manual initiatives.
He added that due to appreciable impact of the project, it has got a place in a global publication from Election Commission of India regarding the use of Geo Fence Technology.