Use of Technology was in full play during the conduct of polling in sensitive booths during the Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh as live ‘webcasting’ of polling activities in such centres were carried out with officials at the Central Election Commission in New Delhi and their counterparts in the Office of Chief Election Officer in Raipur having watched the goings on ‘live’ for the first time in the State.
Chief Electoral Officer, Chhattisagrh, Sunil Kumar Kujur informed that the Election Commission not only appreciated the initiative but also directed that elaborate live ‘webcasting’ of polling during the forthcoming parliamentary polls should also be conducted.
He said that ‘webcasting’ of the polling process was done in a total of 40 sensitive polling booths in the State out of which four were in Bijapur, four in Bilaspur and eight in Dhamtari district.
The officials who were involved with poll preparations under supervision of the Election Commission 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 stages of poll preparation in Chhattisgarh, official sources informed.