NEW DELHI: The number of domestic migrants have lowered by nearly 12% to 40.20 crore between 2011 and 2023, indicating increased economic opportunities across the country, said a report by prime minister’s economic advisory panel EAC-PM. As per a paper by the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, the number of domestic migrants stood at 40,20,90,396 in 2023, which …
The Election Commission has invited all recognised national and state political parties on January 16 to demonstrate the functioning of the multi-constituency prototype Remote EVM. Earlier, a concept note was circulated amongst political parties highlighting the challenges of defining domestic migrants, implementation of Model Code of Conduct, ensuring secrecy of voting, facility of polling agents for identification of voters, process …
The story so far: The Election Commission of India said on December 28 that it was ready to pilot remote voting for domestic migrants through newly devised remote electronic voting machines so that the voter does not have to travel to their home State or district to cast their vote. In its 2015 order on a plea seeking voting opportunities …
To address the issue of low voter turnout due to voters not living in their constituencies due to various reasons like work, study etc, the Election Commission of India has proposed to introduce a remote voting facility for such outstation voters. The ECI has developed a new Electronic Voting Machine for remote voting, based on the currently used EVM, and …
