nagpur elections to 10 municipal corporations in the state may take place early next year but the bharatiya janata party bjp has started preparations in right earnest and has gone hitech to do that a two day workshop on use of modern communication gadgets held at a city hotel was attended by 78 participants who were given certificates by the partys it cell on fridaythese days almost every household has a computer but most of the political workers who are above 40 years or older are known to be reluctant to use it its there children who learn it by themselves and whenever required help their parents to use it so we thought it would be a better idea to give some basic training to the political workers to make best use of devices like mobile phone fax machines and computers to reach out to the masses abhinandan palsapure head of the bjp it cell told toi on saturdaybesides the use of mass smss and sending fax messages participants were told how useful information could be collected in a jiffy using the internet how to search for schemes run by the government of india which could benefit people of different classes how to compile data for political purposes and most interestingly the google earth to scan various localities for election worknext we would be going to the mandal level to teach these techniques for political use the ultimate aim it to make the booth level worker computer literate so that a laptop installed in an election booth would provide all necessary information about voters at the press of the button said palsapure he was assisted by youngsters mostly children of families with political background vipul son of bjp city unit chief anil sole tejas daughter of party functionary vijay fadnavis vedant son of another functionary neeraj agarwal pranay son of bhola sahare vaibhav boppinwar nikhil dudhmogre all students but conversant with computers volunteered to teach the elders in the partyhappy with the interest generated among the politicos for new technology palsapure who himself left a wellpaid job as vicepresident of a private insurance company said it was time more youngsters from other fields took active part in political work there is no point in talking ill of politics from outside its time the young generation joins in to clean up the dirt if any in any party said palsapure