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Leap of Faith Journey of Indian Elections

August, 1997 the Election Commission decided upon a It offers a range of e-services to the voter including
nation-wide programme for computerisation as part of enrollment, rectification of entries, migration to another
comprehensive electoral roll management. This entailed Assembly Constituency, and recently added feature of
change in the whole paradigm. Rather than seeing the downloading e-EPIC. NVSP services are offered in all 14
electoral roll as a printed list, it was now being seen as a recognised languages. The transliteration feature enables
database. This database could be regularly updated, while entry and searches in English or any of these languages.
maintaining the integrity and continuity of data from one Since its inception about nine crore electors have
revision to the other. benefitted by registering online in the Electoral Roll, out of
which 1.4 crore have been registered in the last one year.
Some of the other important products and programmes
of Election Commission of India are- ERONET as game changer: Since August, 1997 when the
Election Commission first undertook the computerisation
National Voters' Service Portal: A one-stop voter
of electoral rolls, data was maintained in a de-centralized
solution portal, available at https://www.nvsp.in/, it was
and disparate manner. There were, until a few years ago,
launched on September 1, 2019. This is a revamped
version of the original portal launched on National 36 disparate applications in use starting from simple Excel
sheets to an advanced Oracle module that required
Voters' Day in 2015.
maintenance of 36 physical data centres supported by as
many servers. The introduction of ERONET (Electoral Roll
Officers' Network) in 2018 became the game changer.
Now all the 28 states and 8 union territories share
common infrastructure at National Level. The UNPER
(Unified National Photo Electoral Roll) is the common
database for all 95 crore voters. This web-based system
allows Electoral officials to process Forms in 14 languages
and 11 scripts.

ERONET Features:

Online Form Processing

Maintenance of Health
of Electoral Roll
Family Informa on

EPIC Portability

Offline Form Processing

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