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be happy Johannesburg on April 12 and Port Louis on April 18.
to organise Chandra shared the Indian experience of conducting
more training elections with the members of the diaspora. He said
programmes that India, being the largest democracy, conducts
including elections for more than 950 million voters across
customised more than a million polling stations.
programmes for Chandra highlighted the steady progress made
A-WEB members at the India International Institute by ECI towards making elections inclusive and
of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM). accessible which has led to greater participation
Chandra also met with Mohd. Irfan Abdool of women, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and
Rahman, Electoral Commissioner of Mauritius senior citizens in Indian elections. He added that
at Port Louis on April 18. During this meeting, this remarkable achievement of conducting free, fair,
he stated that the two countries shared a filial and participative elections in a country as diverse
bond of brotherhood, ancestry, kinship, and as India - linguistically, geographically comes as
affection, connected through a close relationship a result of robust election management practices
of understanding of each others’ systems, support, which include the use of technology for enhancing
and drawing strength from each other. Chandra the participation of voters through applications like
gave a snapshot of recent elections held in India and cVIGIL, voter education through SVEEP, use of EVM-
stated that the two Commissions would continue VVPAT, all-women managed polling booths, single
sharing best practices, skills, and experiences unified electoral roll on a single digital platform,
for mutual benefit. During the visit to the two deployment of central observers and very robust
countries, a briefing cum interaction was organised expenditure monitoring mechanisms.
with the NRI community at Cape Town on April 10;

Snapshot

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