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Thane Installs 330 CCTV Cameras for Civic Polls, Enables Postal Voting for Staff

Returning officers receive secure logins to monitor strong rooms in real time.

Overview

  • A total of 330 cameras cover returning officers’ offices, strong rooms, EVM commissioning and distribution sites, sensitive polling stations, counting centres and check posts across Thane.
  • TMC reports 295 cameras already operational at ward locations, including Majiwada-Manpada, Vartaknagar, Lokmanyanagar, Wagle ITI, Naupada-Kopri, Uthalsar, Kalwa, Mumbra and Diva.
  • A central command centre at TMC headquarters is to be made operational to provide live streaming of all camera feeds.
  • Oversight is led by Additional Commissioner Prashant Rode with Deputy Commissioner Manish Joshi as CCTV nodal officer, supported by 11 surveyors and senior engineers for technical supervision.
  • Postal ballots are available to employees on election duty, with Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Tayade as nodal officer and applications requiring voter-list proof and duty orders before ballots are mailed to home addresses.