Election Commission Budget

Calling it a "serious issue", the court said that the "freebie budget" is going beyond the regular budget. It has sought a response from the poll body and the union government in four weeks.

The EC would not like to interfere in the presentation of the Union Budget, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said, asserting the annual exercise would not disturb the level-playing field for parties during elections to five states

The Union Law Ministry has been allocated Rs 1,005 crore in the central Budget to provide funds to the Election Commission for procurement of ballot units, control units and voter verifiable paper audit trial units (VVPATS), and ancillary expenditure on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and destruction of obsolete voting machines.

The government is likely to bring a bill in the Budget session of the parliament to give the Election Commission (EC) statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar number of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in electoral rolls.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday said "surgical strikes" - one after the other - will be launched on the Narendra Modi government in the coming days by his party. Hinting at the issues on which the "surgical strikes" will be held, he said the biggest issue in front of this country was joblessness and the government has "failed completely" to ...

The Law Ministry is the administrative ministry for the Election Commission (EC).

The country's unemployment rate was at a 45-year-high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, according to the National Sample Survey Office's (NSSO's) periodic labour force survey (PLFS), which has been accessed by the Business Standard newspaper. The report was not released despite being vetted by the National Statistical Commission in December, allege two n...

The first day of February in Delhi brought with it the first hint of spring as well as the Union Budget, and a flurry of crucial by-election reverses that raise serious questions about the electoral health of the BJP. That the counting day for the by-elections happened to coincide with the Budget was Im sure nothing but an innocent coincidence. Aft...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the government is taking the suggestions of the opposition "sincerely", Parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar told the media after an all-party meeting ahead of the budget session today. The budget -- last full-fledged one before the 2019 general elections --will be presented on February 1. The government...

The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) on Monday demanded an independent election commission and a revision in the budget for elections in universities stating that the current limit of Rs 5,000 is "too little and impractical".

There will be an initial frisson of excitement when transparency measures are legislated, but the impact of such disclosures on the political outcome will be minimal. It would amount to no more than a grand but futile gesture.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for the 2017-18 financial year starting April 1. For the first time the general budget included the railways budget this year. Also in a first, the budget announcement date was advanced to February 1 in a move that would help streamline new schemes and spending. The budget comes just da...

The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the government does not need to move the union budget from February 1 to after elections are held in states like Uttar Pradesh, as demanded by some parties. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly today, stating that if the budget is shared before his state st...

The government has been allowed by the Supreme Court to present its budget just three days before voting begins in five states next month, but the Election Commission last night put out conditions. No talk of plans or work done in these states, it has advised.

No specific schemes can be announced in the union budget for the five states where assembly elections are due this year, the Election Commission has said. The Commission said, "in the interest of free and fair elections" and to maintain "level playing field during elections", no state specific schemes should be announced in the national budget, whi...

Calling it a "serious issue", the court said that the "freebie budget" is going beyond the regular budget. It has sought a response from the poll body and the union government in four weeks.

The EC would not like to interfere in the presentation of the Union Budget, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said, asserting the annual exercise would not disturb the level-playing field for parties during elections to five states

The Union Law Ministry has been allocated Rs 1,005 crore in the central Budget to provide funds to the Election Commission for procurement of ballot units, control units and voter verifiable paper audit trial units (VVPATS), and ancillary expenditure on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and destruction of obsolete voting machines.

The government is likely to bring a bill in the Budget session of the parliament to give the Election Commission (EC) statutory backing to collect the Aadhaar number of new applicants and existing voters to check multiple entries in electoral rolls.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday said "surgical strikes" - one after the other - will be launched on the Narendra Modi government in the coming days by his party. Hinting at the issues on which the "surgical strikes" will be held, he said the biggest issue in front of this country was joblessness and the government has "failed completely" to ...

The Law Ministry is the administrative ministry for the Election Commission (EC).

The country's unemployment rate was at a 45-year-high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, according to the National Sample Survey Office's (NSSO's) periodic labour force survey (PLFS), which has been accessed by the Business Standard newspaper. The report was not released despite being vetted by the National Statistical Commission in December, allege two n...

The first day of February in Delhi brought with it the first hint of spring as well as the Union Budget, and a flurry of crucial by-election reverses that raise serious questions about the electoral health of the BJP. That the counting day for the by-elections happened to coincide with the Budget was Im sure nothing but an innocent coincidence. Aft...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the government is taking the suggestions of the opposition "sincerely", Parliamentary affairs minister Ananth Kumar told the media after an all-party meeting ahead of the budget session today. The budget -- last full-fledged one before the 2019 general elections --will be presented on February 1. The government...

The National Students' Union of India (NSUI) on Monday demanded an independent election commission and a revision in the budget for elections in universities stating that the current limit of Rs 5,000 is "too little and impractical".

There will be an initial frisson of excitement when transparency measures are legislated, but the impact of such disclosures on the political outcome will be minimal. It would amount to no more than a grand but futile gesture.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Union Budget for the 2017-18 financial year starting April 1. For the first time the general budget included the railways budget this year. Also in a first, the budget announcement date was advanced to February 1 in a move that would help streamline new schemes and spending. The budget comes just da...

The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that the government does not need to move the union budget from February 1 to after elections are held in states like Uttar Pradesh, as demanded by some parties. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly today, stating that if the budget is shared before his state st...

The government has been allowed by the Supreme Court to present its budget just three days before voting begins in five states next month, but the Election Commission last night put out conditions. No talk of plans or work done in these states, it has advised.

No specific schemes can be announced in the union budget for the five states where assembly elections are due this year, the Election Commission has said. The Commission said, "in the interest of free and fair elections" and to maintain "level playing field during elections", no state specific schemes should be announced in the national budget, whi...