Must Read article by former EC Chief. The EC is a very dynamic organisation and is always learning. The fact that a whole army of bright bureaucrats works overtime behind the scenes ensures the constant flow of new ideas. One such idea came from a young woman collector in Arunachal Pradesh — a live webcast from some of the remotest polling booths. It was so effective that the EC made it an all-India practice. One interesting point to be noted about this greatest man-made exercise is that it is conducted entirely by the much-derided bureaucracy. An election is their opportunity to prove their competence, as they do every time. When insulated from political pressures, they work under the hawk eye of the EC to conduct an event that Hillary Clinton recently described as the “global gold standard”.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:54:12 +0000
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