Encouraged by the role of technology in the successful conduct of elections in Bihar and the high turnout in recently conducted West Bengal and Kerala elections, the Election Commission of India is banking high on technology and has already initiated the process of monitoring the preparation of upcoming state legislative assembly elections for Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. In an interview with EC's Mohd Ujaley, Om Prakash Rawat, Election Commissioner of India talks about innovative use of technology in the upcoming elections. Edited Excerpts:
As a principal secretary Tribal Welfare, Madhya Pradesh, you used PDAs to collect land data in order to settled the title deed for tribal people. Can you tell us more about that experience of using technology?
This was the classical case of how technology could be used to improve the life of people. We used PDA devices to survey the land of tribal people who were living in the forest and for whom the rights were to be settled. Had we opted for a chain or a classical method of surveying their lands, it would have taken years and years and even then the work would not have been completed.
With PDAs, the easiest thing was that you just walk along the perimeter of the land and the longitude and the latitude gets recorded automatically. When you finish the full route, you get the area map and other relevant details on the screen itself. It means, we could survey 500-600 fields in a day. That is why, we were able to settle the claims within a short period of two years.
This is the beauty of that project that today you keep on reading media reports about land issues related to tribal people in different parts of the country but in Madhya Pradesh everything was settled with the help of technology and left-wing extremism evaporated. There has not been any incident between 2008 – 2015, because when tribal rights are settled honestly and with compassion, there is no reason for extremism to exist. In fact, my team got the Prime Minister Award for Excellence in 2011 for this initiative.
Recently, legislative assembly elections were held in Bihar. How did technology help?
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