ECI introduces QR-based identity cards for counting centres on May 4 to check unauthorised entry

Seeking to destruct the anticipation of unauthorised persons entering counting centres connected May 4, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a QR code-based photograph individuality paper system.

The strategy volition beryllium implemented connected counting time for the Assembly polls successful West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, arsenic good arsenic for bypolls successful 7 Assembly constituencies crossed 5 Atates. It volition aboriginal beryllium extended to each Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, the canvass authorization said.