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The Election Commission of India (ECI) volition big a National Conference of the State Election Commissioners (SECs) aboriginal this month, aiming to physique synergy successful the functioning of the cardinal and State canvass bodies with respect to electoral processes and logistics wrong their respective ineligible frameworks.
State Election Commissions are created by instrumentality by the respective States nether the empowering provisions of the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments. SECs are vested with the superintendence, absorption and power of the mentation of electoral rolls for, and the behaviour of, each elections to Panchayats and Municipal Bodies.
The National SEC Conference is being held aft a spread of implicit 25 years. The past specified league was held successful 1999, the ECI said successful a connection connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026).
The conference, to beryllium held connected February 24, is expected to beryllium attended by each State Election Commissioners arsenic good arsenic the Chief Electoral Officers of each States and Union Territories.
The league volition beryllium chaired by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, on with Election Commissioners Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi.
State Election Commissioners volition enactment on with their ineligible and method experts and contiguous their views.
“The superior nonsubjective of the Conference is to physique synergy successful the functioning of ECI and SECs with respect to the electoral processes and logistics wrong their respective ineligible frameworks,” the ECI connection said.
Participants volition instrumentality portion successful treatment sessions connected electoral laws connected elector eligibility successful the States and Union Territories, technological interventions spearheaded by the ECI specified arsenic the precocious launched ECINET integer platform, and physics voting machines, among different topics. The ECI volition besides lend its expertise from its acquisition successful the mentation of electoral rolls and the behaviour of elections arsenic per the Constitution of India and the ineligible model of the country.
