Overview
- One general observer will be posted to each of West Bengal’s 294 assembly constituencies, with expenditure observers expected to rise to about 100 from 84 in 2021.
- Around 480 companies of Central Armed Police Forces are already deployed statewide under the Election Commission’s security blueprint.
- The Commission will implement 100 percent webcasting at every polling station, with live feeds extended outside booths for the first time.
- Police observers are slated for a sharp increase to roughly 100 or more, with the Commission moving to grant them final authority over CAPF movement within districts.
- Sensitivity mapping is guiding deployments, with Murshidabad, Malda and Cooch Behar highlighted for both Bangladesh border exposure and prior poll violence.