Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana Vikas Raj has completed the onboarding of the officials at State and district levels for monitoring election expenditure incurred by the candidates and political parties for the forthcoming elections to the Telangana Legislative Assembly.
The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) deployed a team of IT professionals, trained to work on the Election Seizure Management System (ESMS), the first of its kind application developed in-house by the Election Commission of India and deployed for elections to assemblies of five states. According to senior officials, more than 20 enforcement agencies have deployed their teams to monitor the election expenditure and report the movement of cash, liquor, precious metals and other freebies to allure the electors.
The objective behind the introduction of the ESMS is to enable digitisation of data of intercepted/seized items, from the field through the App. The system provides for the automation of reports in the required format and avoids duplicate entries by different agencies. “The analysis of the data is done by the CEO and necessary action will be initiated in a time bound manner,” a senior official told The Hindu.
