BBMP developing app for voters

NT Bureau

Bengaluru

Voters in the city often feel discouraged from taking part in the elections due to the long queues and lack of availability of parking spaces. The BBMP is developing an application that will address voters' inconvenience to ensure a larger turnout. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is making efforts to increase voter participation by developing a new app (software) called Queue management and Parking management to enable voters to know the status of the queue at a particular booth sitting in their homes so that they can plan their visit. BBMP chief commissioner Tushar Giri Nath said, “Special commissioner Ujwal Kumar Ghosh and IT department chief Surya Sen are working on this project. People can check the status of the queue in front of polling booths and get information about available parking spaces in their voting centres. The app will be launched before the election.