South Zone Symposium

PUDUCHERRY UT - Elections e-enabled

STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION IntroductionSMS services Leveraging Mobile Technologies Bar coding in EVM tracking List of Initiatives Real Time Poll Monitoring System Web casting Citizen Portal –For Next Gen Dynamic Websites Trends Information System Randomization of Polling personnel Conclusion

UNION TERRITORY OF PUDUCHERRY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT Introduction Albeit the small size of the U.T., the distribution of the four regions among the three Southern States of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh with three different spoken languages poses a real challenge for planners The Innovative practices has crossed the geographical and language barriers thereby the Election Machinery is unified with its operations.

Dynamic Website Features are easily locatable and retrieved Single Point source for all Citizen and Management services. Online services Online services for EPIC requests Search in Electoral Roll Real Time Poll Monitoring System Booths Presiding Officer need a click for his updates.

Trends Information System All the counting halls are e-connected with Returning officer Monitoring of counting, dissemination of results and statutory forms are e-enabled. SMS portal The office of CEO, DEO, RO and AROs are sending communications using SMS to their team members. Election GO GREEN Android App Election innovative effort towards eConnect for maximum voters participation. Election Next Gen. Web casting 100% web casting to relay the booth happenings IP based surveillance for sensitive Polling stations.

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ICT has helped in the data collection and Information dissemination. The statistical and factual information given reflects the ICT intervention for the coordination efforts made Simple applications like SMS portal are very powerful in critical situations. Web casting shows how a third eye helps the management to have a control on the surveillance. New technologies like Mobile Apps find scope on the election management. With the growing aspiration in the innovations and practices, the ICT will emerge as a major player on the conduct of the future elections. The young India is fast emerging as the strong ICT enabled citizens and more dependent on the web and mobile technologies. Therefore, the processes, its services, and in general the Election Management will be ICT enabled in all the key areas.