The counting of votes of Chhattisgarh’s all 11 lok Sabha seats will be webcast on May 16, thereby enabling election officials to witness the process live through the internet, election officials said on Tuesday.
Chhattisgarh’s Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Kujur presided over a training programme of the election officials including the nodal officers and master trainers on Tuesday.
Praising the nodal officers for conducting the election successfully Kujur also hoped that they will also complete the counting process without any trouble.
Kujur stated that the counting of votes will be webcast from all the counting centres, thereby, enabling election officials to witness the process live through internet. Besides, the counting process would also be video-graphed, he said.
In the training programme, all nodal officers and master trainers were provided information on constitutional provisions and directions related to counting. They were also told about the rounds of counting, announcements.
The officials were also informed about the rules related to the counting of postal ballots, votes of electronics voting machines and other processes.
Before the start of counting, the Returning Officer will read out and explain the provisions of section 128 for the information of the agents of all candidates and officials engaged in the counting work, and for compliance on their part.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Nidhi Chhibber, Joint Election Commissioner DD Singh and KRR Singh and deputy Election Commissioner Alex Paul Menon were among others who were present in the programme.