Punjab : The NIC State Unit, Punjab played an important role in computerization of the election process as well as timely flow & dissemination of correct information on leading trends and final position in the counting process during the recently held Punjab Assembly Elections.
Detailed information about candidates in fray; VIP status; counting centres; eligible electoral etc, for all the 117 constituencies was collected and fed into the NIC computer systems by NIC Officials.
The State Election Office was provided with necessary hardware infrastructure and technical support by NIC. The Election Office was networked with all NIC Offices in the State. E-mail connectivity was provided in order to enhance communication capabilities of the Election Office.
NIC District Centres in Punjab provided support to the Returning Officers by computerizing a major portion of their work such as details of candidates; data regarding polling stations; posting of polling personnel and etc.
During the counting process the NIC District Officers worked hard to provide round-by-round data emanating from the counting centres through NICNET, from where the data was immediately downloaded at Jalandhar Doordarshan Kendra and State Election Office, Chandigarh, for onward transmission to Doordarshan and dissemination to the Press.