AI-powered control room with 90 screens to monitor 80,700 polling booths 24×7 during Bengal elections

KOLKATA: A central control room equipped with an AI system, 90 screens, around 100 laptops, and staffed by 200 young micro-observers from various central government offices, along with 10 toll-free numbers, has been set up to monitor 80,650 polling stations across 294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal during the election.

This extensive surveillance arrangement, which includes around two lakh web cameras, comes in the backdrop of the deletion of around 91 lakh voters’ names following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.