{"id":28517,"date":"2018-10-24T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28517"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:18:25","slug":"ec-launches-app-to-report-electoral-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ec-launches-app-to-report-electoral-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"EC launches app to report electoral malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/ec-launches-app-to-report-electoral-malpractice\/article24325555.ece\">EC launches app to report electoral malpractice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the Election Commission of India has launched an Android- based mobile application named \u2018cVigil\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The application was launched for citizens to share cases of malpractices of political parties when the Model code of conduct is in force.<\/p>\n<p>3. The application, whose Beta version has now been released, will be made available for use during the four State Assembly elections scheduled for later this year.<\/p>\n<p>4. For using this application, EC officials will be trained.<\/p>\n<p>5. The application will be advantageous in the following manner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will facilitate sharing of geo-tagged photographic and video evidence without disclosing the identity of the sender.<\/li>\n<li>The uploaded information will be transmitted to the control room, and from there the field units or flying squads, mapped on a Geographical Information System will be alerted for further action.<\/li>\n<li>In case the complaint does not opt for anonymity, the person will also receive an action-taken report within about 100 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6. Apart from the above application, EC also launched a voter education and electoral participation portal, dedicated to Persons with Disabilities (PwDs).<\/p>\n<p>7. The mobile application was launched on the sideline of national consultation programme on \u201cInclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in the Electoral Process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Important terminology related to this article:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>8. Model Code of Conduct(MOC):<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MOC is a set of guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India for conduct of political parties and candidates during elections.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly with respect to speeches, polling day, polling booths, election manifestos, processions and general conduct.<\/li>\n<li>The Model Code of Conduct comes into force immediately on announcement of the election schedule by the commission to ensure free and fair election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EC launches app to report electoral malpractice News: Recently, the Election Commission of India has launched an Android- based mobile application named \u2018cVigil\u2019. Important facts: 2. The application was launched for citizens to share cases of malpractices of political parties when the Model code of conduct is in force. 3. The application, whose Beta version&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ec-launches-app-to-report-electoral-malpractice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EC launches app to report electoral malpractice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906246},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}