live webcast of polling from 58 booths in Bastar on Thursday (April 10) greatly ensured conduct of free and fair polls in the constituency.
More than a third of the booths from where live webcast were carried out were either categorized as ‘sensitive’ or ‘hyper-sensitive’, official sources here informed.The webcast was closely monitored both at the State as well as district levels.This apart, more than 1,000 digital and video cameras were used to monitor polling activities in Bastar.
Use of technology was in full play even during the conduct of polling in sensitive booths during the Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh as live webcasting of polling activity in such centres was carried out with officials at the Central Election Commission in New Delhi and their counterparts in the Office of the Chief Election Officer in Raipur who watched the goings on live for the first time in the State.
The webcast of polling during the Assembly polls was done in a total of 40 sensitive polling booths in Chhattisgarh out of which 4 were in Bijapur, 4 in Bilaspur and 8 in Dhamtari district.
The officials had also made wide usage of the Geographical Information System (GIS) maps of districts replete with data on constituencies, demography and other key parameters to monitor the poll preparation in the State during the Assembly polls in the State.