By Firstdespatch Desk Sep 30, 2025
Agartala, Sept 30 (FD) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has undertaken a series of initiatives aimed at making the country’s electoral process more transparent, efficient, and citizen-friendly. In a recent statement, the Commission confirmed that 18 significant measures have been implemented, covering areas related to voters, political parties, electoral officials, and administrative reforms.
One of the major steps includes limiting the number of voters per polling station to 1,200, ensuring better accessibility and reducing overcrowding. Additional polling booths will be set up in remote and hilly areas as well as densely populated colonies. The Commission has also introduced a system to automatically update the electoral roll by directly recording voter deaths from the Registrar General of India (RGI) database. Voter Information Slips will now prominently display sequence and part numbers for ease of reference.
For political parties, over 4,719 meetings have been held at different levels—40 at the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) level, 800 at the District Electoral Officer (DEO) level, and 3,879 at the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) level. More than 28,000 political representatives have participated in these consultations. In addition, workshops for booth-level agents have been organized in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry to strengthen ground-level electoral management. The Commission has also launched a unified ECI-NET dashboard, replacing over 40 separate applications, to streamline all electoral processes in one platform.
To prevent duplication of voter IDs, a new mechanism has been introduced to generate unique EPIC numbers. On the legal front, the Commission has identified 28 stakeholders involved in electoral roll preparation and election management, covering voters, officials, candidates, and political parties, who are regularly trained under relevant laws and Commission guidelines.
For election staff, Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will now receive high-quality photo identity cards. More than 3,000 booth-level supervisors have already undergone training at the Indian Institute of Democratic and Electoral Management (IIIDEM), with a target of training over 100,000 BLOs and supervisors in the coming years. Training has also been extended to officials across 36 states and Union Territories, as well as police officers in Bihar.
Among internal reforms, the Commission has introduced biometric attendance, e-office systems, and regular review meetings with Chief Electoral Officers. These steps underline ECI’s continued commitment to uphold transparency, credibility, and efficiency in India’s democratic process. FD SB