The Election Commission (EC) successfully held web casting in 10 polling booths at Baikunthpur district for the first time in the last and final phase of the lok Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
The experiment helped voters to watch online the progress of polling in the booths sitting in their homes. District Collector and Returning Officer Avinash Champawat and Superintendent of Police (SP) B S Dhurve also specially took stock of the web casting experiment.
According to District Information Officer and Publicity Officer Ziaur Rahman, as per the instruction from the EC, the polling activities in the these polling booths were telecast live with web cameras. It was monitored by a Control Room set up at the Government Ramanuj Model Higher Secondary School. The live online telecast was done on website www.ceochhattisgarh.nic.in.