Rajshahi Correspondent: The Election Commission (EC) has held a divisional workshop on vote result management software and 'Kopot' Apps aimed at making its district and upazila level officials competent in terms of using the software and apps properly.

EC Secretary Shafiul Azim addressed the workshop held at the conference hall of Regional Public Administration Training Centre as chief guest with Joint Secretary (Administration and Finance) Moniruzzaman Talukder in the chair.

EC Additional Secretary Ashoke Kumar Devnath, Additional Commissioner of Rajshahi division Tarafder Akter Jamil, Deputy Commissioner Shamim Ahmed and Regional Election Officer Delwar Hossain spoke as special guests.

EC Secretary Shafiul Azim said the App has been innovated so that there were no deficits of confidence related to the election.

For the first time, they arranged the workshop in Rajshahi with all concerns related to elections to make the App easier.

"We will also arrange such types of workshops in other divisions in the days to come," he said, adding that delivering services smartly will be possible with integrated efforts in future.

In the last 12th National Election, the division-wise figures were recorded throughout the day based on direct reporting by election officials across the country, who used a specialised app - Kopot - to send centre-wise vote casting data to the EC headquarters after every two hours.

This is the first time the EC deployed the app to streamline the monitoring of voting patterns in a general election.

Shafiul Azim told the meeting that the first batch of data was received by the commission around 10 AM and the last batch around 6 PM.

Around 70 officials related to election, who performed as returning officers, assistant returning officer and presiding officer, joined the workshop.

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