The Ranchi district administration on Tuesday organised a training session for the officials taking into account the upcoming Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections. The master trainers from the State Election Commission (SEC) made the district administration officials familiar with the guidelines, Model Code of Conduct violations, Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) usage including the android based mobile application service – cVIGIL launched recently by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Focusing on the cVIGIL mobile application, Master Trainer – Bhupesh Kumar said, “The ECI team during their recent visit to Ranchi had launched the cVIGIL mobile application. cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for the citizens to report Model Code of Conduct and other related violations during the elections. The android based mobile application works within the specified jurisdiction and will be operational for a limited period. After the implementation of Model Code of Conduct, the mobile application starts functioning.”
According to the SEC official, for the first time to counter the cases of Model Code of Conduct, the cVIGIL mobile application service will be used in the State during the upcoming elections.
Jharkhand is the fifth State in the country where the mobile based service has been launched. “The maximum response time to address the grievances within the stimulated time is 100 minutes. The complaints first gets registered with the district control room and then sent to the national portal, as per the requirement,” Kumar added.
Meanwhile, the Master Trainers also informed the officials about the VVPAT functioning and shared a detailed description about the election guidelines.
The second technical training session organised by the district administration team was also expected to see the participation of the representatives from political parties. However, the training session saw immensely low participation of the political party representatives.