ALL IMOROTANT INFORMATION RELATED TO ELECTION COMMISSION JUST A TOUCH AWAY.
ECI APP WILL HELP MEDIA, POLITICAL PARTIES, PUBLIC TO HAVE EASY ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Nawanshahr, January 13, 2017: The Chief Election Commissiioner, Dr. Naseem Jaidi has launched the “ ECI App” prepared by Vipul Ujwal, Deputy Commissioner cum District Electoral Officer, SBS Nagar, during his visit at Chandigarh on Thursday. The Android ECI App was launched in the presence of all the DCs, SSPs of the state. While lauding the innovative initiative of the DC, Vipul Ujwal, the Chief Election Commissioner said that it would help the public especially political parties and media to have easy access to all the important information related to the Election Commission including notifications issued by the ECI and nominations filed by the different candidates.
Deputy Commissioner, Vipul Ujwal, while divulging details, said that he himself had been facing difficulty to have an easy access to the ECI notifications and other important information related to candidates, officials etc. uploaded on the ECI website for want of an Mobile App. “ The necessity of solving this problem stirred an idea to develop an android mobile app , which has ultimately been realized with the help of IT experts”, said the DC.
The home page of “ECI APP” contains icons, which included, Citizen, Elector, Election Officials, Candidates, Media and Political Parties. All the important information can be accessed by just a finger touch on the related icon on the screen of mobile phone, further said the DC, Vipul Ujwal.
By touching “ Citizen” icon, one can have access to the information related to registration of new voters,previous election data, voters’ slip and complaints etc. On “ Election Official” icon, the information related to Model Code of Conduct, Nomination schedule can be accessed. On “ Elector” icon, Forms 6, 6A, 7 & 8 related to voter registration, search of electoral officer, polling station , voter list and information regarding complaints, on “ Candidate” icon, Apps related to ECI : Suvidha, Smadhan, Sugam, on “ political Party” icon, information related to star campaigner, Suvidha and the rates of different articles being used during election approved by the ECI, Booth level agents, Samadhaan and on “ Media” icon, the press releases issued by the ECI, list of candidates, affidavits filed by the candidates, polling percentage, results related information can be accessed, further said the DC while adding that above all the newly developed ECI App would virtually enable the public to have hassle free access to the information as well as to submit any election related complaint by just having a touch on mobile screen.