{"id":89,"date":"2014-04-02T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/300-cctv-cameras-being-installed-at-polling-booths\/"},"modified":"2014-04-02T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:20:00","slug":"300-cctv-cameras-being-installed-at-polling-booths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"300 CCTV cameras being installed at polling booths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Move aimed to ensure rigging free polls<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cctv_camera_1246861a.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cctv_camera_1246861a.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Srinagar:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> In a significant move to ensure free and fair polling during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir- first time in the state, more than 300 CCTV cameras are being installed at the rigging sensitive polling booths.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sources told KNS that some opposition parties in the state including main opposition PDP had written to Election Commission- raising apprehensions of the possible interference by the state machinery during polls. &nbsp;The parties had urged the commission to ensure that the polling booths be kept under the surveillance so that rigging could be avoided.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sources confirmed further that the Office of the chief election officer Jammu and Kashmir had issued advertisement, asking the companies to submit their tenders for the installation of CCTV cameras at various polling booths of the state.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Tender of the Srinagar based private company has been approved and the said firm has been informed to start the project in this regard.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The reports stated that 300 CCTV cameras are being installed at various polling booths in the state.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The officials added that to ensure no rigging, no political interference, and misuse of authority by the poling staff- the installed of CCTV cameras have great significance.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The reports informed further that the procedure will be followed during the assembly polls also that are scheduled to be held by the end of this year. &nbsp;&nbsp;(KNS)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move aimed to ensure rigging free polls Srinagar: In a significant move to ensure free and fair polling during the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir- first time in the state, more than 300 CCTV cameras are being installed at the rigging sensitive polling booths. Sources told KNS that some opposition parties in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}