A brief about the Election commission of India

A brief:

·         The election commission of India is an independent body formed by the Government of India specially to conduct and monitor all sort of election in the country. The first and the foremost aim of the election commission is to conduct fair and free election in the country.

·         The Constitution on 25th January 1950 have given a green signal to constitute the election commission and it is the year 2001, since than the election commission was formed and it has been conducting election.     

Hierarchy of the commission:

·         As it has already been mention that the commission is an independent body and it is headed by a Chief Election Commissioner and in addition to that the commission has also two additional election commissioners who will work under the Chief Election Commissioner.

·         However at a later date the structure has been changed and multi-member Commission concept has been introduced in the commission. The basic aim behind the multi-member Commission concept is to take fast decision.

Working period:

·         Basically the election commission is headed by the Chief Election Commissioner and the President of India give appointment to Chief Election Commissioner.

·         Once a Chief Election Commissioner is appointed, he can hold the office for 6 years or attaining the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.

·         The rank, perk, salary and allowance of the Chief Election Commissioner is equivalent to the judge of a supreme court.

Basic functions:

·         The main function of the Election Commissioner is to conduct fare and free election, however in addition to that the Commission also conducts the following duties.

·         Whenever a new political party is being formed, it has to be registered with the Election Commission of India. The commission does the function of registration of new parties.

·         At the time of registration of new party the commission make sure that the part has enough set up and they have inner party democracy as well.

·         The commission also holds periodical meeting with the political parties.

·         Voters education is also another important task being done by the commission. Regularly the commission used to conduct seminar, road show and various other educative methods to educate the voter.

·         Issuance of new voter card is also being done by the commission.  In fact if any election is going to be conducted in the near future the commission set up camps to issue new voter card to the eligibility citizens of the country.

State election commission:

·         Article 243K of the Constitution of India clearly speaks about the state election commission.

·         The Article 243K is nothing but to form a state election commission, who will completely look after the election and all election related issue in a particular state.

·         The Constitutional (73rd Amendment) Act has given more teeth to the state election commission, where it empower the state election commission to establish "democracy at the grass roots level.  

·         In addition to the above SEC is also empowered to conduct local body election in the states.

Latest developments:

·         Day by day the election commission of India is modernizing and adopting various innovative ideas so that maximum number voter can be turned to the polling station.

·         The adoption of online methodology has made many tasks like registration for new voter card, modification in the voter card, getting duplicate card, checking criminalization of politics much simpler.