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“The Election System contributes to form a healthy National Informatics Centre democratic governance. India, the largest democracy in the State Centre world, vests the fundamental rights to her voters to choose their leaders and mandate them responsibilities. Thus, Unit - IV , Sachivalaya Marg, Election Commission is entrusted with the onus of –751001 conducting free and fair Election to directly elect public Tel: +91 - 674 - 2508438 leaders by the citizens. In present era, with the rapid

● www.nic.in development of emerging technologies, the election process ● www.gov.in is more ICT based with an objective to yield time-saving,

communicative and transparent results. e-Mail : [email protected] In 2019, the simultaneous General Elections in Odisha for both the Parliament and the Legislative Assembly have “We live in a society exquisitely witnessed the efficiency of Information Technology to a dependent on science and technology, significant level. The role of State and District level NIC teams in this regard has been in which hardly anyone knows anything highly commendable. Their contribution and sincere involvement has tremendously helped the election process to complete it successfully. about science and technology.” - Carl Sagan I wish all success to NIC, Odisha in their future endeavour.”

- Shri Surendra Kumar, IAS. InSight Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha.

2. Special Summary Revision, 2019 Simultaneous General Election 2019 : NIC played its support part Updation of Electoral Roll is a hectic India is well known for its citizens faith for Polling Stations and Counting job. Therefore, during special summary on democracy and for its free and fair Centres. Polling parties are formed and revision, the public can apply online for election process to choose public deployed to the Polling Stations registration of new voters, deletion of representatives. With the development following a three stage randomisation names, correction of entries and finally of technologies, ICT is used to achieve process. The instructions and guidelines transposition in electoral roll etc. The accurate, in time formulated by software has the provision of and transparent ECI and executed downloading Assembly Constituency results. In 2019, by CEO, Odisha wise consolidated lists from ERO-Net by simultaneous have been strictly District Election Authorities and General Election followed in uploading to the site after necessary was conducted in developing and corrections. The public view of the which technology rolling out the information at every stage is available has played a very software. Thus, particularly through respective District vital role. the multi tenancy websites. Particularly, in s o f t w a r e Odisha the developed in 3. Software for Daily Reporting on fragrance of EVM and VVPAT Trainings to Polling Personnel in open source violation of Law & Order/ Model technology was presence of DEO cum DM , ADM, ADIO (NIC). platform has Code of Conduct (MCC) and Liquor better smelt as been used across Monitoring both the elections for Parliament and the state with whole hearted support Election Commission of India (ECI) Legislative Assembly were conducted from NIC officers to complete the job in vigils scrupulously the incidences of simultaneously. NIC played a lead role time. Similarly the deployment of violations in law and order, Modal Code in providing in time services to the personnel in counting centres also has of Conduct (MCC) during the complete Electoral authorities. The competent been done as per the ECI guidelines. election period. It also emphasises on workforce of NIC at district and State level have toiled much to make the Election, 2019 successful.

Some services were directly provided by NIC with its own software and at the same time, technical support was rendered for other services developed and rolled out by ECI and CEO, Odisha.