By Gopal Ethiraj from Chennai
Chennai, 16 May, (Asiantribune.com): Counting for 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry has commenced at 8 a.m. today. In Chennai the counting for the three seats are at Queen Marys College for North Madras, Llyola College for Central Chennai and Anna University for South Chennai constituencies.
Elaborate arrangements are being made for the counting. It will be in 14 rounds. In about two hours time leading position would be trickling down. All electronic media will swing into action with their specials.
The News Services Division of All India Radio has made elaborate arrangements for broadcasting election results today for Lok Sabha and three state assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, and Sikkim.
In addition to several special hourly bulletins, two special bilingual (English and Hindi) programmes would be broadcast from New Delhi. The first special, live programmes "Faisala Aapaka: Chunav-2009" from 8.30 in the morning till 5.00 in the evening would focus on trends, results, analyses and reactions. Experts, politicians and eminent personalities from Delhi Studios would be interacting with experts, politicians and AIR correspondents all over the country over emerging trends and results.
The other bilingual, live phone-in programme, "After Your Verdict" from 9.30 pm to 10.30 pm, would focus on the emerging post-poll scenario. Experts in Delhi Studios would be interacting with correspondents and common people in this hour long programme. Members of the public are welcome to participate in this programme by dialling up phone number 011-23717077.
For the first time, both these programmes would be made available live on the internet at http://webcast.gov.in/newsonair/index.html and people not covered by AIR signals, specially the NRIs, would be able to listen live in real-time to both these programmes. These programmes would be broadcast all over India on National hook-up, FM Gold channels and additional frequencies. The trends and results would also be available on website of AIR news, http://www.newsonair.nic.in.
All India Radio News has made efforts to reach out to the maximum number of people through their own languages by broadcasting news and programmes in over 75 languages or dialects. The Regional News Units (RNUs) of AIR spread across the country are making special efforts to bring the trends, results and analyses to the people in regional languages throughout the day. The RNUs would be broadcasting 34 special programmes, 294 special bulletins and extending timings of 152 existing bulletins.
During the five phases of polling, the RNUs have already broadcast about 1200 special/extended bulletins and mounted about 125 special programmes in different regional languages. Some of the programmes and bulletins would also be available on the website of AIR news.
The Press Information Bureau will operate the Media Centres in its premises from 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 p.m. here at Headquarters and also at its 40 regional and branch offices spread across the country on the counting-day tomorrow.
The Media Centres will have the provisions for television-sets and internet linked computers to provide the latest trends and updates on the election results for the visiting journalists. Press releases would be issued on the State Tallies and a National Tally after all the results are declared by the Election Commission.
The PIB has also set up a Scroll Board outside Shastri Bhawan which will show the trends and latest results as the counting progresses during the day.
Also on display at the Media Centre will be an exhibition on elections in the past and present. It will contain interesting photographs taken during the previous elections and some from the present one also. It will also have useful and interesting data from the present and previous elections.
- Asian Tribune -
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