1. General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014
CHENNAI DISTRICT
Election Expenditure Monitoring 1

2. Election Expenditure Monitoring
Presentation by
Vikram Kapur , IAS,
District Election Officer
&
Principal Secretary/
Commissioner,
Corporation of Chennai

3. Total no of Voters (incl Others)
Introduction
Three Parliamentary Constituencies in Chennai district
Name of the PC
Total no of booths
Male Voters
Female Voters
Total no of Voters (incl Others)
2. Chennai North PC
1308
707702
714429
14,22,395
3. Chennai South PC
1611
901212
894253
19,75,778
4.Chennai Central PC
1153
665284
662505
13,28,042 3

4. 4

5. Name of the assembly segment
PC No
Name of the assembly segment
Booths
Total Electors
2 – Chennai North
11.Dr R K Nagar
214
234415
12.Perambur
246
268793
13.Kolathur
216
253008
15.Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar
202
216468
17.Royapuram
164
186930
4 – Chennai Central
14.Villivakkam
213
237602
16.Egmore
163
187190
18.Harbour
172
181730
19.Chepauk Thiruvellikeni
185
218194
20.Thousand Lights
206
232691
21.Anna Nagar
223
270634
3 – Chennai South
22.Virugambakkam
243
267427
23.Saidapet
233
263785
24.Thiyagaraya Nagar
190
230534
25.Mylapore
219
249132
26.Velacherry
248
277845
Total
3337 5

6. Expenditure Monitoring machinery ** 1 AC is under Kancheepuram DEO
3 ADEOs (Headquarters)
North Parliamentary Constituency
South Parliamentary Constituency
Central Parliamentary Constituency RO RO RO
6 AROs
6 AROs
6 AROs
6 Addnl AROs
6 Addnl AROs
6 Addnl AROs
Election Expenditure Monitoring Team
5*3=15 FST **
5*3=15 FST **
6*3=18 FST
All Field Level
5*3=15 SST
5*3=15 SST
6*3=18 SST
5 VST
** 1 AC is under Thiruvallur DEO
5 VST
** 1 AC is under Kancheepuram DEO
6 VST 6 6

7. Election Expenditure Monitoring Team (Head Quarters)
DEO
Additional DEO
(Incharge of Expenditure Monitoring)
Nodal Officer
Election Expenditure monitoring Cell
Expenditure monitoring control room
24x7 Call Centre 7 7

8. Election Expenditure Machinery in each PC Sent reports if any seizures
RO/ARO
FST
Video Surveillance Team
SST
Video Viewing Team
Accounting Team
Sent reports if any seizures
Assistant Expenditure Observers
Expenditure Observers 8 8

9. 2 - Chennai North Parliamentary Constituency ( excluding Thiruvottiyur
Chennai District is one of the expenditure sensitive districts in the state of Tamil Nadu
The details of electoral offences in the Tamil Nadu Assembly election 2011 (Click To View)
An analysis of the Vulnerable Voter booths in Chennai District as per various indices showed that Chennai District has 255 vulnerable booths :
2 - Chennai North Parliamentary
Constituency ( excluding Thiruvottiyur
assembly segment) 84
3 - Chennai South (excluding
Sholinganallur assembly segment) 88
4 - Chennai Central 83
Total
255 9

10. Details of electoral offences in assembly election 2011
During the year 2011 Assembly election, 882 cases were registered for model code of conduct violation , 64 cases were registered for money & material distribution, 91 cases were registered for criminal intimidation and other election related offences. The number of cases and also its present stages are furnished below: (Previous Slide)
Reported
CONVICTED
PENDING TRIAL
UNDER INVESTIGN
ACTION DROPPED
CLOSED
ACQUITTED
QUASHED
UNDETECTED
MISTAKE OF FACT
MODEL CODE OF CONDUCT
882
234
185
349 17 74 2 21
MONEY/MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION 64 14 20 7 1 16 5
CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION AND OTHER ELECTION RELATED CASES 91 23 32 11 12
TOTAL
1037
271
237
367 29
102 3 22 6 10

11. Special initiative
Owing to the “expenditure sensitive” status of the district, a special initiative was taken to track all the election expenditure monitoring teams functioning in the three parliamentary constituencies of Chennai District.
48 vehicles for these EEM teams were on field at any point of time and to put them to optimum use ,it was decided to track the vehicle with a vehicle tracking system
Vehicle tracking was done with GPS system
Real time monitoring was made by integrating it with the Complaint Cell in the District Election Office 11

12. Vehicle Tracking System
An electronic device is installed in a vehicle to enable to track the vehicle's location.
Uses Global Positioning System (GPS) modules for accurate location of the vehicle.
Combines a communication component such as cellular or satellite transmitters to communicate the vehicle’s location to remote user.
Vehicle information can be viewed on electronic maps via Internet or specialized software. 12

13. Salient Features the Vehicle Tracking System
Live Tracking
Speed Tracking
Fuel Monitoring
Ignition ON/OFF Alert
Over Speed Alert
Location Alert
Vehicle Idle Alert 13

14. Green – Moving Vehicle Red – Ignition on but not moving Orange – Ignition Off

15. Real Time Monitoring : Yellow – Moving, Red – Switched off
Using Vehicle Tracking System it was possible to monitor whether the flying squad and static surveillance team traveled in the designated route and locations.

16. The routes through which the vehicles traveled were monitored

17. BENEFITS TO ELECTION EXPENITURE MONITORING
CUSTOMISATION
The system was customised to obtain Parliamentary Constituency wise movement of vehicles and also even Assembly Constituency wise movement of vehicles
By this system if the vehicle was found wandering beyond its designated PC or AC it was tracked and enquired for violation
Other reports like fuel consumption and the route traveled by the vehicle were taken for every individual vehicle and closely monitored
BENEFITS TO ELECTION EXPENITURE MONITORING
Live tracking of all EEM Vehicles ensured better compliance from EEM teams
Helped Chennai district election office to ensure better compliance and efficient complaint monitoring on all election related offences

18. Cost involved in use of vehicle tracking system
VTS was installed in 48 vehicles of the flying squad ,static surveillance team and video surveillance team
The cost involved was Rs. 1,43,838
The expenditure was borne from the Chennai Corporation funds 18

19. Potential of Vehicle Tracking System in Elections
EVM transit can be monitored
For better monitoring of zonal parties and police teams 19

20. Integrated Monitoring of EEM Teams by the Expenditure Cell at the DEO office

21. Monitored by DEO/RO/ARO
Ack SMS sent to the complainant
ATR SMS sent to the complainant
Nearest Vehicle Tracked in VTS
Public Complaints
Complaints received at toll free number District Election Office,Chennai
Entry Made in the corporation of Chennai Election Portal
Msg Informed to the nearest FST
1913 (Complaint monitoring in Corporation of Chennai. Chennai - 3. )
Complaints received thro’ ceo.tn mail
Action taken by FST/SST
*ECI toll free no Complaints
* App developed by CEO,TN PC
Toll Free No
COC MIS 1913
1950
Mail
App Dev by CEO
Action Taken
North 10 5 2 8 53
South 37 23 6 42
Central 25 28 3 1 40
Monitored by DEO/RO/ARO
Entry made in complaint register

22. Review By DEO
Complaints from all sources were entered and compiled in the Corporation of Chennai election portal.
The number of complaints registered and its pendency status were continuously intimated to the concerned RO and AROs by short messaging service (sms) automatically generated from the COC election portal.
The status of all electoral offences was closely monitored by the DEO through this integrated COC election portal. . 22

23. All complaints are entered in COC election portal
DEO & Observer inspecting the complaint register and COC election portal 23

24. Liquor Monitoring Nodal Officer for Liquor Monitoring
Report sent to Expenditure Monitoring cell in DEO office
Asst Commissioner Excise
Every morning verifies whether there is greater than 30% sale (in comparison to previous year) from any particular TASMAC shop
Verify for any election related liquor distribution
Intimate the concerned FST/SST
This list is
mailed to DEO
Segregated and intimated to concerned
RO and ARO 24

25. Media Monitoring 24/7 all important channels are watched
24/7 Recording of all the news
Any suspected paid news is listed out
Informed to MCMC team of concerned Parliamentary Constituency
If proved reported to Accounts team for lodging the expenditure in the A/C of the Candidate
Inquiry done by concerned RO 25

26. Expenditure lodging in candidate expenditure A/C
News Paper Monitoring
Paper Cutting
Paid News
Final decision taken by DEO and Election Observer in case of any dispute
Xerox copies of paper cutting sent thro’ mail to ARO and RO for verification
Expenditure lodging in candidate expenditure A/C
If certified paid news 26

27. DEO & Observer inspecting the media cell27

28. Other Targeted Efforts
Expenditure sensitive pockets were identified by the Returning Officers for targeted monitoring NO
Parliamentary Constituency
No of sensitive pockets 2
Chennai North 15 3
Chennai South 4
Chennai Central 60
Total 90 28

29. Special zonal parties
Maximum cash and articles distribution happens in the last 2-3 days
Hence special zonal parties were deployed on these days for expenditure monitoring
Bank employees who were enlisted for duty as micro observers were formed as special zonal parties
They were deputed for expenditure monitoring in sensitive pockets, from to
Special zonal parties were provided with vehicles and assisted by paramilitary force 29

30. Seizure made during General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014
S. No
Name of
Parliamentary
Constituency
Cash / Article seized
Amount in Rs.
Gold (gm) / Others 1
North Parliamentary constituency
73,80,400
1.) gms of Gold 2.) 13 No. of liquor bottles worth Rs.1,10,000/- 3.) 1 bundle gutka 55.5 grams worth Rs.52,400/- 4) Eatable and grocery worth Rs.80,000/- 5.) 5 number of polyster sarees worth Rs.1000/- 2
South Parliamentary constituency
2,14,000
1.) 13 Nos of liquor bottles 2.) gms of Gold 3
Central Parliamentary Constituency
44,17,400
1.) gms of Gold 2.) 5 No. of liquor bottle 3.) Sathish ambulance - basis of paper news that mixi, grinder etc are being supplied near central 4.) 111 Brandy bottles and 21 beer bottles
District Total
Rs.1,20,11,800

31. Media reports on expenditure monitoring in Chennai31

35. Thank You 35