NEW DELHI: The upcoming meeting elections in 5 states will witness the roll-out of the Election Commission‘s newest technology initiative to reinforce transparency in monitoring use of cash energy and ballot inducements in addition to motion taken by central and state enforcement businesses towards such offences.
The know-how, known as Election Seizure Management System (ESMS), is a platform the place all of the central and state enforcement businesses will probably be onboarded, would require them to add particulars of each recorded motion and seizure of illicit money, liquor, medication and so forth, enabling real-time updates from the sphere in addition to coordination and intelligence-sharing between such businesses.
“We have given strict instructions to all the enforcement agencies (regarding crackdown on poll inducements) and we mean business,” chief election commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar mentioned, including that the outcomes achieved within the state polls by way of a coordinated combat towards cash energy will pave the best way for a cleaner and inducement-free 2024 normal elections.
“With ESMS, agencies will have to report as soon as they take any action and, if they don’t fill up the details, it will tell us that no action has been taken by a particular agency,” he mentioned.
Seizures have rise by leaps and bounds up to now few polls. Seizures soared 3,626% from Rs 83 crore to Rs 384 crore within the current Karnataka polls. The rise in seizures between the newest ballot and election earlier than that was 2,184% in Tripura, 1,150% in Nagaland, 6,627% in Meghalaya, 2,862% in Gujarat, 533% in HP and 200% in Uttarakhand.