Collectors in Telangana given training on election work

A training programme for all district Collectors in Telangana on how to deal with the process of election work, especially those involving information technology, was conducted here Monday.

According to the guidelines of the Election Commission of India, all the Collectors/District Election Officers (DEOs) of the state have been imparted training on how to deal with the process of election work.

Also, deputy DEOs with IT wing have been trained to have a clear idea to perform their duties with transparency during the process of the elections, Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Rajat Kumar told reporters.

The ECI has deputed teams from Delhi to impart the training at the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) head office whereKumar and the civic body Commissioner M Dana Kishore monitored the programme, he said.

 

The ECI has made available10 IT applications which would help the DEOs perform their duties in an appropriate way, Kumar said. Also, the ECI has introduced an application 'C Vigil' wherein any citizen can upload photos and videos during the election time, for which time-bound response would be provided, he said.

Every citizen can utilise the application to upload and give information about the model code of conduct, malpractices etc, and the EC officials would act on the grievances in a time-boundschedule to sort the issues out immediately, Kumar said.

These are some sophisticated and powerful IT tools which would be used this time in the election, he said.

Special awareness campaigns towards voter enrolment were also conducted over the last three days across the state where every booth-level officer performed the assigned duties at the polling stations, he said.

Kumar said he would also have an interaction with all the Collectors after the meeting to know their feedback on the details of the awareness campaigns.

The CEO said special care was being taken for duplicate entries, inclusion, deletion etc. in a time-bound manner as it is a statutory activity guided by the rules and conditions which have to be implemented while performing the duties during the election period.

Also, Kumar explained about Unified National Photo Electoral Roll (UNPER) and National Voter Service Portal (NVSP), and about their importance during the process of election work.

Last week, Kumar had said preparations for Assembly polls in the state were underway, and EVMs and VVPAT machines had started to arrive.

He had said over 52,000 ballot units, around 41,000 central units and 44,000 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines were expected to reach various districts before September 20.