Low cost live webcast of polling centres on the internet, used successfully for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh during the last parliamentary and assembly elections, could be replicated at other places where elections are due.

Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla was given a demonstration of the webcast today by the governor's secretary Ankur Garg who, as deputy commissioner of Tirap district-- a disturbed area because of militant activities, introduced it to oversee polling there.

"I am highly impressed. I will discuss it with my colleagues in Delhi. Such innovative ideas can be replicated elsewhere in addition to other measures like videography introduced in the previous elections," Chawla said.

"With this facility, sitting at the election office or at home you can get live feeds of how the polling is going on," he told reporters here.

Garg said the cost of webcast was Rs 16,000 per polling station.

An advantage was that the recordings at polling stations, which would be made from the control room of the district and state headquarters, could not be destroyed.

"The recordings will be very useful to settle election cases," he said.

He said in Tirap, where except for one all polling stations were declared sensitive, witnessed record polling during the last elections.