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Hindustan Times ( 19 Jan 2017 ) carries following report with a headline :

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" Maharashtra civic elections: Now, you can check candidate details at booths on poll day "

This civic election, you can choose your candidate after analysing their affidavit details on the polling day itself as this information will be available at your centres on February 21.

 You can take a look at the EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION of your candidates and you would also come to know if he / she has any CRIMINAL RECORD on a display board inside the centre.

Ahead of the CIVIC POLLS 2017, the local election authorities will put up display boards outside polling booths showing a summarised version of candidates’ AFFIDAVITS.

These affidavits will have the details of their name, age, education qualification, criminal records, assets and liabilities.

The state election commission (SEC) has made it COMPULSORY for all civic bodies to put up these display boards showing the details of all the candidates. There will be over 8,000 polling booths in Mumbai alone.

JS Saharia, state election commissioner, told HT: “According to the Supreme Court’s judgment, it is the right of every voter to know their CANDIDATES’ DETAILS and thus we will be asking the municipal corporations to put up a summary of the CANDIDATES’ AFFIDAVITS on polling day outside every booth.

It will be a practice that will be followed for all the elections.”

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While congratulating the Mr Saharia , on this excellent initiative , I request him to persuade the Central Election Commission to initiate on its own , a dialogue among the political parties, to implement the following ELECTORAL REFORMS :

*    VotesApp  [  18  Dec  2012  ]  

     {  http://www.hemenparekh.com/2013/08/votesapp.html  }

*    ROMP - RecallOur Member of Parliament  [  06  Aug  2015  ]  

     { http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2015/08/romp-panacea.html  }

*   One Poll ,One  Time ?  [  06  Sept  2016  ]  

    {  http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-poll-one-time.html }

*   One  Day Polling  is  Possible  [  31  March  2016  ]  

    { http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/03/one-day-polling-is-possible.html }

*  The  Greatest Reform  [  12  June  2016  ]  

    {  http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-greatest-reform.html }

*  ReformingElections and Lok Sabha ( REaL ) [ 20 Dec 2016 ]  

   { http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/12/reforming-elections-and-lok-sabha-real.html }

*  Filtering  Candidate Information  [  18  Sept  2016  ]  

  { http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2016/09/filtering-candidate-information.html }

*  Honey!  I shrunk  the EVM  !  [  21  Oct  2015  ]  

  { http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2015/10/honey-i-shrunk-evm.html }

My Fellow Citizens ,

This will happen if 10 million of us , forward these suggestions to :

Name	Designation	E-mail Address
Mr. Umesh Sinha	Deputy Election Commissioner	decus@eci.gov.in
Mr. Sudeep Jain	Director General	sudeep.jain@eci.gov.in
Mr.Dhirendra Ojha	Director
Mr.V.N.Shukla	Director	vnshukla@eci.gov.in
Mr. S.K.Mendiratta	Legal Advisor	mendiratta.sk@eci.gov.in
Mr. Shangara Ram	Principal Secretary	sram@eci.gov.in
Mr. Tapas Kumar	Principal Secretary	tkumar@eci.gov.in
Mr. K.Ajay Kumar	Principal Secretary	kakumar@eci.gov.in
Mr.R.K.Srivastava	Principal Secretary	rksrivastava@eci.gov.in
Mr. K.F.Wilfred	Principal Secretary	kfwilfred@eci.gov.in
Mr. Bernard John	Principal Secretary	bjohn@eci.gov.in
Mr. Y.Standhope	Principal Secretary	ystandhope@eci.gov.in
Mr. S.K.Rudola	Secretary	skrudola@eci.gov.in
Mr. Varinder Kumar	Secretary	varinderkr@eci.gov.in
Mr. Anuj Jaipuriar	Secretary	anuj@eci.gov.in
Mr. K.N.Bhar	Secretary	knbhar@eci.gov.in
Mr. N.N.Butolia	Secretary	narendranb@eci.gov.in
Mr. Sumit Mukherjee	Secretary	smukherjee@eci.gov.in
Mr.Harbans Singh	Secretary	harbans@eci.gov.in
Mr. J.K.Rao	Under Secretary	jkrao@eci.gov.in
Mr. Suresh Chand	Under Secretary	sureshchand@eci.gov.in
Mr.. A.N.Das	Under Secretary	andas@eci.gov.in
Mr. B.M.Sharma	Under Secretary
Mrs. Baljit Kaur	Under Secretary
Mr. K.D.K. Verma	Under Secretary
Mr. S.B.Joshi	Under Secretary	sbjoshi@eci.gov.in
Mr. P.K.Sharma	Under Secretary	pramod@eci.gov.in
Mr. darsuo Thang	Under Secretary	darsuo.thang@eci.gov.in
Mr. Malay Mallick	Under Secretary	malaymallick@rediffmail.com
Mr. Avinash Kumar	Under Secretary
Mr. Arvind Anand	Under Secretary

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19  Jan  2017

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