10019 vehicles used on the day of voting in the Lok Sabha elections in the state will be under GPS monitoring. For this, GPS is being installed on all vehicles. Till now GPS has been installed in 2600 vehicles. The process of installing GPS in all vehicles will be completed two days before voting. On Thursday, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande gave this information while talking to journalists at the Secretariat Media Centre. He informed that vehicles are being acquired by the Transport Department for the elections. Till now, 13250 vehicles have been acquired as per the requirement of the districts. Of these, 3860 vehicles have been arranged for Zonal Magistrate, Sector Magistrate, Flying Squad and SST. 9190 vehicles are being arranged for polling parties. He said that the vehicle drivers and conductors who will be deployed on election duty on the day of polling are being given the facility to vote through postal ballot. Till now 8675 have given application forms for this.
He informed that arrangements for GPS tracking are being made in the vehicles used on the day of voting. Nodal officers will be deployed at the district and state level to keep an eye on these. Installing GPS in vehicles will help polling parties reach their destination. At the same time, if any vehicle uses the prescribed route somewhere else, then its information will also be available.
Bed arrangements will be made from the district level
Additional Chief Electoral Officer said that polling parties going to remote areas have to arrange their own bedding and other material. This causes them a lot of inconvenience. Keeping this in view, for the first time an effort is being made to arrange beds and bedding in all the polling stations in the districts through the local administration. It has been said that this arrangement can be made through Panchayats, by the groups themselves or even at the local level. For this, necessary funds have been made available to all the districts.
