Ahmedabad Times

ECI flags off Part-II of Worldwide Election Guests’ Programme

NEW DELHI Delegates from 17 nations, together with representatives from their overseas missions in Delhi, will witness polling in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu on Thursday as a part of the Election Fee’s Worldwide Election Guests’ Programme (IEVP) 2026.That is the second leg of the programme; the primary part had seen 43 delegates from 23 nations experiencing the polling course of first-hand in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on April 8 and 9.Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated the second version of IEVP on the Indian Worldwide Institute of Democracy and Election Administration (IIIDEM) on Tuesday. As many as 34 delegates from 17 nations, together with representatives from their overseas missions right here, and a consultant of Worldwide IDEA are taking part on this part.The delegated will go to Tamil Nadu and West Bengal from April 22 to April 23, 2026. They may go to the dispatch and distribution centres and different amenities, together with district management rooms and media monitoring centres. On April 23 morning, the delegates will witness the polling because it occurs.The delegates have been on Tuesday given an illustration of the EVM at IIIDEM. They took half within the mock ballot utilizing the machines, getting a hands-on expertise of the voting course of. The worldwide guests evinced eager curiosity within the technological interventions and administrative safeguards for the election course of in India. An interactive session had consultants clarifying the doubts/queries of delegates.IEVP is a flagship program of the ECI for worldwide cooperation and engagement with the election administration our bodies (EMBs) of different nations and worldwide organizations.The programme supplies a complete overview of India’s electoral framework, institutional mechanisms, and operational structure, moreover familiarising overseas EMB delegates with finest practices and improvements in election administration.