million polling staff were deployed in and outside 834,944 polling stations, including about 2.5 million security personnel. Over 2,000 observers, all senior officers of the IAS and allied services, were also deputed, as were almost 1,40,000 micro-observers and about 75,000 videographers…and yet the picture is not complete. You have to add deployment of 40,599 digital cameras, 119 special trains comprising 3,060 coaches for transporting central police forces all over the country, 55 helicopters to do more than six hundred sorties and airlift security personnel; and innumerable election
...more
