Haryana: E-Dashboard for Municipal Corporations Election 2013 (Web based Portal for poll day integrated with mobile based SMS services)
NIC-Haryana team developed a web based application for the Municpal Corporations Election-2013 held in seven numbers of Municpal Corporations of Haryana in the month of June'2013. Web based application was developed by the NIC-District Unit, Hisar and hosted at NIC-Haryana State Center under the domain http://mcelections.nic.in The SMS e-Dashboard was updated successfully, achieving 100% reporting from all the Polling Booths. The informations on the Dashboard were presented in tabular form as well as in 3D graphical form in real time mode.
The SMSes were sending by the Presiding Officer directly from the respective polling booths and the same were reflected instantly on the Dashboard. The mobile numbers of each Presiding Officers were collected during the dispatch of the polling parties to the respective polling booths and the same numbers were registered in the software and it was ensured that the system would only recognize the same number for accepting the SMS and reflecting instantly on the portal. NIC SMS gateway was utilized, for this each Presiding officer has to send SMS in specific format at different time lines to single number 9215156503 for updating the information on Dashboard.
Monitoring Feature for any interruption in the poll process during the poll
The mobile numbers of senior authorities of the Elections like State Election Commissioner, Assistant State Election Commissioner, Deputy Commissioners, Observers, Deputy Commissioners and Superintendent of Police were also captured. The officers under the group were simultaneously cautioned by auto generated SMS, if any SMS from the presiding officers send for interruption to the dashboard.
E-Dashboard for Counting Results - Web based disclosure of the results of counting of votes directly from all the counting centers
The dashboard was displaying the leading candidate position on the front from all the wards of all Municipal Corporations of Haryana enabled with the hyperlink to view the details of all candidates contesting from the particular wards and votes gained.Color mechanism was utilized to have privileged view and instant focus on the dashborad. The background color of leading candidate during the counting process was blue and after declaring the wining of any candidate after completion of counting the background color becomes red. Ward wise and candidate wise details were made available under public disclosures with just single click of mouse