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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has projected to enactment retired mutually acceptable mechanisms and legally viable frameworks with each State Election Commissions (SEC) crossed the state to synergise election-related processes, including the sharing of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), electoral rolls and the ECINET integer platform.
At a National Round Table Conference of the ECI and State Election Commissioners (SEC), which concluded successful New Delhi connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026), a declaration was adopted stating that ECI and SECs would enactment unneurotic to synergise the laws governing elections to panchayats and municipal bodies with those relating to elections to Parliament and State Legislatures, and fortify practice to further nationalist and law interest, according to an authoritative connection issued by the ECI connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026).
State Election Commissions from 30 States participated successful the conference, chaired by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. The conscionable was held aft a spread of 27 years.
The SECs affirmed that the mentation of axenic electoral rolls forms the bedrock of ideology and that transparent and businesslike behaviour of elections further strengthens antiauthoritarian institutions.
CEC Gyanesh Kumar underscored the value of strengthening organization coordination betwixt the ECI and SECs wrong their respective law mandates. He emphasised harmonised approaches successful electoral rotation management, adoption of technology, and the sharing of champion practices to heighten the integrity and ratio of electoral processes, the connection said.
In enactment with this, the ECI projected to enactment retired mutually acceptable mechanisms and legally viable frameworks with each SECs crossed the state to synergise election-related processes, including the sharing of ECINET, EVMs, electoral rolls and the grooming infrastructure astatine India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), a elder ECI authoritative said.
All suggestions received from SECs during the league volition beryllium examined by a associated squad of ineligible and method officers led by the Deputy Election Commissioners acrophobic of the ECI. A State/UT-wise roadmap volition beryllium submitted to the Commission wrong 3 months for an due decision, the authoritative said.
