CEC Gyanesh Kumar Completes 100 Days: Right here Are 21 Reforms Launched By Election Fee
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These initiatives come at a time when the ECI has confronted appreciable scrutiny following numerous elections
In current weeks, the ECI, underneath his management, has launched quite a few reforms and adjustments to supply a smoother expertise for each voters and political events whereas additionally streamlining election administration. (File picture: PTI)
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, who took cost of the Election Fee of India on February 19, accomplished 100 days in workplace on Thursday. In current weeks, the ECI, underneath his management, has launched quite a few reforms and adjustments to supply a smoother expertise for each voters and political events whereas additionally streamlining election administration.
In an announcement, the fee stated, “A slew of purposeful, pragmatic and proactive measures has marked the primary 100 days of the twenty sixth Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s tenure. The imaginative and prescient for a reinvigorated ECI was charted out by the CEC within the presence of Election Commissioners Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr Vivek Joshi through the Convention of Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) held in March 2025.”
These initiatives come at a time when the ECI has confronted appreciable scrutiny following numerous elections.
Voters first
A number of voter-centric initiatives have been launched, together with pointers for establishing extra polling cubicles in high-rises and residential colonies to cut back journey time for voters. The fee has additionally diminished the utmost variety of voters per polling station from 1,500 to 1,200, minimising ready instances.
Electoral roll updates will now incorporate loss of life registration information instantly from the Registrar Normal of India (RGI) database, topic to verification. This replaces the earlier system the place a member of the family needed to file Kind 7 for the deletion of a deceased voter’s identify. Voter info slips will probably be made extra user-friendly, with distinguished show of serial and half numbers. Moreover, cell phone deposit amenities will probably be offered outdoors polling stations, addressing a earlier logistical problem for voters. The fee has additionally changed all duplicate Electoral Photograph Identification Card (EPIC) numbers with distinctive identifiers.
In complete, 28 stakeholders, together with electors, election officers, political events, and candidates, have been recognized inside the electoral course of. Reforms are being carried out with every of those stakeholders in thoughts. Coaching shows primarily based on the fee’s acts, guidelines, and directions are being developed for every stakeholder group.
Engagement with political events
To reinforce belief with political events, the fee has launched reforms to enhance communication and deal with issues. Over 4,700 all-party conferences have been carried out throughout India on the electoral registration officer (ERO), district election officer (DEO), and chief electoral officer (CEO) ranges, involving greater than 28,000 social gathering representatives. CEOs oversee elections on the state degree, DEOs on the district degree, and EROs on the meeting constituency degree. These decentralised conferences be sure that social gathering employees in any respect ranges stay knowledgeable all through the electoral course of.
The fee can also be assembly nationwide and state social gathering leaders. Of the six nationwide events, the CEC has met the presidents of 5: Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP), Communist Celebration of India (Marxist), and Nationwide Individuals’s Celebration (NPP). Additional conferences are deliberate after the present by-elections. Canvassing distance norms have been relaxed, permitting candidates and events to arrange cubicles past 100 metres, in comparison with the earlier 200-metre restrict. Capability-building programmes for booth-level brokers have been carried out in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry.
Inside adjustments and capability constructing
The fee has launched ECINET, a brand new built-in dashboard offering all companies for all stakeholders at a single level, changing over 40 apps and web sites. A nationwide convention of counsels representing the ECI and CEOs was organised to strengthen synergy and refine the authorized framework. Standardised photograph ID playing cards for booth-level officers (BLOs) have additionally been launched.
Coaching has been carried out for over 3,500 booth-level supervisors, with a further 6,000 BLOs/BLO supervisors scheduled for coaching within the subsequent 45 days throughout roughly 20 batches. Common conferences between the ECI and CEOs of all 36 states/union territories are being held to enhance coordination between their workplaces and numerous ECI divisions.
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