Gujarat Government Planning To Launch E-Voting In Panchayat Polls
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat government is now planning to extend the e-voting facility to panchayat polls, despite the lukewarm response it got in the recent municipal polls.
At present, the e-voting facility is available only for voters of all the eight municipal corporations in the state. Voters of District, Taluka and Gram Panchayats are not given this facility yet.
However, before taking a decision, the state Panchayats Department has started an exercise to collect information from across India as well as from the other countries to find out the feasibility of this project.
According to Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Jayanti Kavadia, information about Internet connectivity in rural parts of state is also being collected by his department.
"Our department is at present collecting information about whether such facility is in place in any other part of India or in the world, and how it is being handled there. Such information is crucial for us to find out the road map to implement e-voting in Gujarat," said Ms Kavadia.
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