Bengaluru residents will be able to watch today the election of the BBMP’s new mayor from the comfort of their own homes or offices as the BBMP has made all the arrangements to live stream the entire election process.
According to BBMP commissioner Manjunath N Prasad, on Friday, the webcasting will start at 11 am and will continue till the end of the process. “The election process will be webcast live. It is the first-of-its-kind experiment in the country,” he said.
Sources said that henceforth, the BBMP will webcast all the monthly meeting proceedings of the BBMP live using the webcast technology. “The BBMP has set up a system to webcast all proceedings live at a cost of Rs. 80 lakhs. This can be live streamed on smartphones also,” said an officer.
