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Senior Citizens: Bhilwara Admn Launches Mobile App To Track Home Voting For Senior Citizens | Jaipur News
Jaipur: Bhilwara district election officer has introduced ‘SAHAJ Bhilwara’ App aimed at tracking the movement of polling teams, videographers, security personnel and political party agents visiting for home voting for senior citizens aged 80 years and above.
The App will lend a helping hand to senior citizens and also help the senior authorities including the district election officer of Bhilwara to monitor filing of forms, casting of votes and proper record of the number of senior citizens who will cast their votes.
Ashish Modi, district collector and district election officer of Bhilwara, on Saturday said that his district is the first district to have this kind of a mechanism. “With this App, we would be able to monitor if the polling teams if they actually visited the homes of senior citizens aged 80 years and above and done their job of facilitating them to cast their votes. We would be able to track their location. Real-time tracking will also help us to avert chances of foul play, if any,” said Modi while talking to TOI.
He added that the purpose of this mobile-based application is to help Returning officer (RO) in real-time monitoring of form 12D filling, vote casting and it will provide a ready dashboard to him as well as to district election office for better monitoring.
“We have provided three separate logins for RO, polling officers (PO) and block level officer (BLO) who are involved in entire process of voting for ‘Absentee Voters’ (those allowed to cast their votes from home). The purpose of the application is monitoring the entire exercise. It will help RO in better planning and will also make scheduling and deployment of polling parties easier,” Modi added.
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The App will lend a helping hand to senior citizens and also help the senior authorities including the district election officer of Bhilwara to monitor filing of forms, casting of votes and proper record of the number of senior citizens who will cast their votes.
Ashish Modi, district collector and district election officer of Bhilwara, on Saturday said that his district is the first district to have this kind of a mechanism. “With this App, we would be able to monitor if the polling teams if they actually visited the homes of senior citizens aged 80 years and above and done their job of facilitating them to cast their votes. We would be able to track their location. Real-time tracking will also help us to avert chances of foul play, if any,” said Modi while talking to TOI.
He added that the purpose of this mobile-based application is to help Returning officer (RO) in real-time monitoring of form 12D filling, vote casting and it will provide a ready dashboard to him as well as to district election office for better monitoring.
“We have provided three separate logins for RO, polling officers (PO) and block level officer (BLO) who are involved in entire process of voting for ‘Absentee Voters’ (those allowed to cast their votes from home). The purpose of the application is monitoring the entire exercise. It will help RO in better planning and will also make scheduling and deployment of polling parties easier,” Modi added.
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