HYDERABAD: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vikas Raj on Friday set up an integrated command and control room to receive complaints about violence, caste or religion-based issues, booth capturing, disinformation, cyber threats, low-voter turnout, hate speeches, character assassinations and materialistic inducements.
The control room is a collaborative workspace where the CEO reviews the situation in all 119 Assembly constituencies and makes decisions based on the information sent by ground-level teams in real time and, if required, in consultation with ECI officials.
The monitoring includes operations of seizures, MCC violations, 1950 call centre complaints, issues under MCMC, c-Vigil, FST, SST, Excise dept, police department, social media and Suvidha app besides monitoring the 18 distilleries and six breweries in the state.
The control room will keep track of 15 satellite TV channels and three YouTube channels. This is in addition to monitoring the control rooms managed at DEOs and ROs, live webcast, CCTV cameras, video graphing the election process at various levels, electronic media monitoring centre and advertisements of all parties.
