ECI holds first All-India Media Conference to enhance understanding of electoral process
ECI holds first All-India Media Conference to enhance understanding of electoral process
ECI holds first All-India Media Conference to enhance understanding of electoral process
The Election Commission of India has issued fresh orders changing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision schedule for voter registries in Punjab.
The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is progressing rapidly across Haryana.
The Election Commission of India on Friday organised its second one-day conference for Media and Communication Officers, with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioner Vivek Joshi calling for proactive efforts to counter misinformation, deepfakes and false narratives while strengthening public confidence in the country's electoral process.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday sought responses from rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress regarding competing claims about the party's organisational elections and authorised signatories, signalling the poll body's intervention in the internal dispute.
The Election Commission (EC) today cracked the whip on the District Election Officers (DEOs) and Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) over the proper verification of deceased voters, asking both to dig deeper in order to get the correct information on dead voters in the municipalities and gram panchayats before making a conclusion on the voters' lists.
Appearing for ADR, advocate Prashant Bhushan submitted that the ongoing SIR — initially launched in Bihar and subsequently extended to 12 states and UTs — runs contrary to the Commission’s own 2003 guidelines.
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a slew of directions to ease the workload on Booth Level Officers (BLOs) involved in the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in several states, following reports of deaths and FIRs against ground-level staff.
According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attentively listened to all concerns and has advised that, keeping in mind the upcoming assembly elections in twenty-six, the ongoing SIR process in Bengal must be made simple and transparent.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has placed 2,208 polling booths in West Bengal under heightened scrutiny after discovering that each of them recorded 100 per cent distribution, collection, and digitisation of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms with not a single ‘uncollectable’ form reported.
