The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Tuesday released the BBMP-VTrack app — GPS-based real-time tracking system — that will track vehicles on election duty.
“The application can help Returning Officers and monitoring teams track vehicles used by the flying squad, expenditure officer, video surveillance team, static surveillance team, and sectoral officers by constituency. The idea is to reduce the response time if there is a complaint. The app gives details of the drivers, vehicle number and their contact number. An immediate SMS can be sent to the driver through the app,” said BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad.
More than 650 vehicles on election duty have already been tracked through the app, he said. Additional details such as message log and history of route taken by a driver can be seen on the app.
Earlier in the month, the BBMP developed three other election-related apps — Election Quiz, Model Code of Conduct Reporting, and Election Officers Directory — which hardly saw users.
Hoardings for parties
A four-member committee comprising Additional Chief Secretary, Law Secretary, BBMP Commissioner and the Police Commissioner has been constituted by the Election Commission of India to allocate hoarding space to political parties for election advertisement.
