Hyderabad: The first phase of Gram Panchayat elections saw a spike in online content consumption with people embracing Te-Poll app like never before.
Voters downloaded 11,105 voter slips through the mobile app and 1,87,163 through the Web Portal, a download of 5021 GB data approximately.
Internet has evidently penetrated into the Gram Panchayat.
The Telangana State Election Commission (SEC) felt that the Te-poll software was very useful for the Officers, the candidates and the voters in pre-paring electoral rolls, their downloading by candidates and generation of voter slips by the voters.
The Te-poll software provided an opportunity to contesting candidates for filing nominations online. This facility was used by 357 Sarpanch candidates and 526 ward members.
The State Election Commission requests the candidates in future elections to utilize this opportunity and make the nomination process very simple and efficient.
Meanwhile, the State Election Commission reported the successful completion of the first Phase Gram Panchayat Elections 2018-19 involving 4,470 Gram Panchayats and 39,628 Wards.
“The Election Commission takes the opportunity to congratulate the nearly 1,50,000 government officers, Staff and police personnel for working round the clock including on festival days and making the process a success”, the SEC said.
The Second and Third Phase of the polls will be observed on January 25 and January 30 respectively.
