Video Viewing Team (VVT):

There shall be a Video Viewing Team for each Assembly Constituency/Segment with one officer and two clerks. The Video Viewing Team shall make CDs in house out of the video recordings, captured by Video Surveillance Teams. Video recordings should not be given to any outside agency for editing or for any other purpose to avoid manipulation by any outsider. The video CDs captured by video surveillance team shall be viewed by the Video Viewing Team daily to identify expenditure related issues and MCC related issues. They shall submit, on the same day and in any case not later than the next day, their reports related to expenditure to the Accounting Team/Assistant Expenditure Observer. In expenditure related reports, the team will put the registration number of all the vehicles and their make, size of the dais, the number of chairs, size of the text in Banner/Poster, size and number of cut-outs and all other items of expenditure captured in the video. The reports/observations related to the MCC shall be submitted by this team to the General Observer/RO. The Accounting Team and the Assistant Expenditure Observer shall calculate the total expenditure as per the notified rates of the items used, based on the video evidences and make the relevant entries in the Shadow Observation Register for the candidate concerned. The same shall be compared with the candidate's register when that is produced before the Expenditure Observer for verification. As explained earlier, any suppression or omission shall be pointed out for corrective measures in writing by the R.O. immediately within 24 hours.


Video Viewing Teams (VVTS) will function from the date of announcement of election and shall continue with their duty upto date of poll/re-poll, if any. (Annexure-B18 & B20)