Chief Election Commissioner inaugurates two-day Chief Electoral Officers' Conference

Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti and Election Commissioner OP Rawat inaugurated a two-day Chief Electoral Officers’ Conference in New Delhi on Friday.

Addressing the conference, Mr Joti stressed on the need of providing E-services to stakeholders and emphasised the requirement to develop E-Payment gateways for various election services of Election commission. 

He underlined the need for extensive training programmes on Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) as the Commission has decided to conduct all future elections using it along with Electronic Voting Machines. 

The Chief Election Commissioner also stated that Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) should be developed as core area of election management.

Mr Rawat



called upon all Chief Electoral Officers to avail the opportunity to share the experiences and good practices of each other and learn election management related issues from senior practitioners.He stated that all electoral practitioners must work together to reach the higher scale on electoral integrity with further strengthening Indian democracy.

Senior officers of the Commission also participated in the Conference by making presentations on pivotal issues like EVMs and VVPATs, Electoral Registration Officers’ Net, Electoral Roll, SVEEP, Expenditure Monitoring, Social Media, Paid News and other issues.

The event is being organised by the Election Commission of India to review performance as well as to explore new initiatives and improve the election management and voter experience.