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(THE GIST OF PIB) National Voters’ Day
(THE GIST OF PIB) National Voters’ Day
(JANUARY-2024)
National Voters’ Day
- Election Commission of India is celebrating 14th National Voters’ Day (NVD) on 25th January 2024.
About National Voters’ Day (NVD):
- It has been celebrated on January 25 every year since 2011, across the country to mark the foundation day of the Election Commission of India, i.e. 25th January 1950.
- Purpose: The main purpose of the NVD celebration is to create electoral awareness amongst citizens and encourage them to participate in the electoral process.
- Dedicated to the voters of the country, the National Voters' Day is also used to facilitate enrolment of voters, especially the newly eligible young voters.
- New voters are felicitated and handed over their Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) in the NVD functions held across the country.
- NVD is celebrated at the national, state, district, constituency and polling booth levels, which makes it one of the largest celebrations in the country.
- NVD 2024 theme - ‘Nothing Like Voting, I Vote For sure’
- On January 25, 2024, the Election Commission of India celebrates its 75th year of service to the Nation.
Key facts about the Election Commission of India:
- It is an autonomous and permanent constitutional body responsible for organising free and fair elections in India.
- The Constitution grants the ECI with the power of direction, superintendence, and control of elections to Parliament, state legislatures, the office of president of India, and the office of vice-president of India.
Powers and responsibilities ECI:
- Determining the Electoral Constituencies’ territorial areas throughout the country.
- Preparing and periodically revising electoral rolls and registering all eligible voters.
- Notifying the schedules and dates of elections and scrutinising nomination papers.
- Granting recognition to the various political parties and allocating them election symbols.
- The Commission also has advisory jurisdiction in the matter of post-election disqualification of sitting members of Parliament and State Legislatures.
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