The process of listing government employees to be deployed for election duties in the district for the local body election on November 2 has begun under e-DROP, an acronym for the electronic system for deploying randomly officers for polling, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for the State Election Commission.
Election officials here said that the process for identifying the government employees for the deployment for election duties was already under way in a decentralised manner by the local bodies using the web-based software solution that ensures the entry of all government employees for the randomised selection for poll duties in different polling booths.
The civic bodies have entered the names of the government employees in their respective areas using the software solution on the basis of professional tax institution register. NIC officials here said the software system ensured a decentralised way of entering details about the government staff. An advantage of e-DROP was that it ensured that there was no omission of names. After the institutional-level entry, the lists would be subjected to scrutiny at the district level, the officials said.
Exemption lists would be considered during this scrutiny. That would be followed by randomised selection of the presiding officer and polling officers in each polling booth in the district, they said.
