NIC, West Bengal and its District Units extended full support to the State Government during the Assembly Elections held in Apr-May 2006. The major activities included
- Technical assistance in preparation of database for polling personnel
- Supervision of the preparation of Contesting Candidates’ Databases, including scanned copies of their affidavits, criminal records (if any) etc
- Preparation of various statutory reports like Form 7A, A03, D03 and uploading the data on the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
- Issue of appointment letters as Presiding officers and Polling Officers based on the random selection
- Formation of polling parties and allocation of assembly constituencies
- Preparation of database for polling booth-wise voter turnout, preparation of statutory reports like A05, D05 etc. and their transmission to the website of ECI, on the polling day.
- Counting party formation and issue of appointment letters on the day before the counting day.
- On the counting day, preparation of database for polling booth-wise candidate-wise votes obtained and generation of cumulative votes as trends, trend-reversal and final result, with total votes obtained and finally transmission of the final results to GENESYS website of ECI & CEO, West Bengal.
The role of NIC in election work was highly appreciated by CEO, WB and ECI in general. In some cases, the DM issued appreciation letters to the DIOs/DIAs. Similar messages - of NIC Officials receiving appreciation for their contribution in the election work have been received from other State Centres as well - Editor