election commission: Top EC officials likely to brief Parliamentary panel on electoral reforms: Sources

Prime officers of the Election Fee are more likely to be known as by a Parliamentary panel to temporary it on electoral reforms, together with distant voting, linkage of Aadhaar with voter ID card, and one uniform voter roll for all polls, sources mentioned on Monday. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances and Regulation and Justice chaired by senior BJP chief Sushil Modi has additionally determined to deliberate upon the difficulty of e-courts and can search an appointment with Supreme Courtroom Choose D Y Chandrachud who heads the e-committee of the apex courtroom.

After deliberating with members of the panel, Modi has determined to ask prime officers of the ballot panel and focus on with them distant voting, which permits anybody to vote from outdoors his or her constituency, and linking of Aadhaar card with voter ID card, which may cast off multiplicity of the playing cards voters want to point out whereas going for voting, they mentioned.

A dialogue may also be held on varied different electoral reforms deliberate by the EC, together with singular voter listing for the Lok Sabha, state meeting and panchayat elections.

The officers from the ballot panel are more likely to be invited within the first week of November.

Former Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, who demitted the workplace earlier this 12 months, had expressed hope that the idea of distant voting will see “the sunshine of day” by the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Earlier this 12 months, the ballot panel had began a analysis mission for enabling distant voting in session with IIT Madras and eminent technologists from IITs and different main establishments.

The Supreme Courtroom’s e-committee is the governing physique charged with overseeing the e-courts mission conceptualised underneath the Nationwide Coverage and Motion Plan for Implementation of Info and Communication Know-how (ICT) within the Indian Judiciary, 2005.

E-courts is a pan India mission monitored and funded by the Division of Justice, within the regulation ministry. Its imaginative and prescient is to rework the judicial system of the nation by Info and Communication Know-how (ICT) enablement of courts.