New Delhi, Feb 6 || The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Friday, completed the two-day interaction session with more than 1,000 Central Observers, who will be deployed in about a dozen poll-bound states, this year.
During the meeting at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIDEM), elaborate discussions took place on maintaining the fairness and integrity of the electoral procedure and the observers were briefed by the top ECI office-bearers on the electoral preparedness.
The observers were briefed on various aspects of preparation, including electoral rolls, election expenditure, Information Technology.
They were also given a demonstration of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) functioning.
This was the third batch of central observers, getting direct briefing from the Election Commissioners, where they were impressed upon about new tools and techniques being introduced into elections and also their doubts were addressed by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.