{"id":28776,"date":"2018-10-24T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28776"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:17:14","slug":"pm-renews-call-for-debate-on-simultaneous-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-renews-call-for-debate-on-simultaneous-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"PM renews call for debate on simultaneous polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-renews-call-for-debate-on-simultaneous-polls\/article24187753.ece\">PM renews call for debate on simultaneous polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for widespread consultation on simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha during NITI Aayog meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table style=\"height: 956px;\" width=\"620\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"638\"><strong>Simultaneous elections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meaning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simultaneous elections is a proposal by the prime minister to hold the elections of Lok Sabha and the state legislative elections on the same dates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Arguments in favour :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will help in reduction of government expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>2-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would ensure consistency, continuity and efficiency in the governance.<\/p>\n<p>3-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Frequent electoral cycles disrupt normal public life by impacting the delivery of essential services.<\/p>\n<p>4-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Better utilitzation of resources.<\/p>\n<p>5-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Enforcing the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the election period is detrimental in implementation of development programmes.<\/p>\n<p>6-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Curb corruption and build a more conducive socio-economic ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>7-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Simultaneous polls would free central armed forces and manpower that is deployed at regular intervals for election duty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Argument against:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would involve amendments to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that people are well adopted to the present system of elections.<\/p>\n<p>Due to large illiteracy prevail in the country a new measure can create confusion among the masses.<\/p>\n<p>There can be unhealthy competition between the National parties and state parties which is not good for our democracy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Apart from simultaneous elections, other points on which PM Modi emphasized:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Amending terms of reference of the 15<sup>th<\/sup> Finance Commission, the current population as per 2011 census should the basis.<\/li>\n<li>PM has asked the states to give \u201cfresh ideas\u201d for incentivizing outcome based allocations and expenditure correction.<\/li>\n<li>Finance commission devolution formula has to take cognizance of the relative backwardness and low per capita incomes of some states.<\/li>\n<li>However, the states like Andhra Pradesh have demanded that 1971 census be ued as reference for 15<sup>th<\/sup> Finance Commission.<\/li>\n<li>PM asked states(Delhi, Goa, J&amp;K, Odisha, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura) which did not represent in the meeting to fix \u201cambitious growth target\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Committee on seven Chief Ministers from states (MP, Bihar, Sikkim, Gujarat, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, UP), to be set up to make recommendations on leveraging MGNREGA in the agriculture sector.<\/li>\n<li>Explore opportunities to increase corporate investment in agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Challenge before India is to take economic growth to double digits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM renews call for debate on simultaneous polls News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for widespread consultation on simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha during NITI Aayog meeting. Simultaneous elections: Meaning: Simultaneous elections is a proposal by the prime minister to hold the elections of Lok Sabha and the state legislative elections&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-renews-call-for-debate-on-simultaneous-polls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM renews call for debate on simultaneous polls<\/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-28776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704885120},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776","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=28776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}