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Election Commission of India

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Constitutional Body overview
Formed	25 January 1950; 73 years ago (Later celebrated as National Voters’ Day)
Jurisdiction	Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India
Headquarters	Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi[1] 28°37′26″N 77°12′40″ECoordinates: 28°37′26″N 77°12′40″E
Employees	Around 300[2]
Constitutional Body executives	Rajiv Kumar, IAS (Retd.), Chief Election Commissioner of India Anup Chandra Pandey, IAS, Election Commissioner of India Arun Goel, IAS, Election Commissioner of India
Website	Official Website

Politics of India

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body. It was established by the Constitution of India to conduct and regulate elections in the country. Article 324 of the Constitution provides that the power of superintendence, direction, and control of elections to parliament, state legislatures, the office of the president of India, and the office of vice-president of India shall be vested in the election commission. Thus, the Election Commission is an all-India body in the sense that it is common to both the Central government and the state governments.^[3]

The body administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies, State Legislative Councils and the offices of the President and Vice President of the country.^[2][4] The Election Commission operates under the authority of Constitution per Article Election Results^[5] and subsequently enacted Representation of the People Act.^[6] The commission has the powers under the Constitution, to act in an appropriate manner when the enacted laws make insufficient provisions to deal with a given situation in the conduct of an election. It is a permanent constitutional body.By ledihatv.com

Structure[edit]

The commission was established in 1950 and originally only had one Chief Election Commissioner. Two additional Commissioners were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989 (on the eve of the 1989 General Election), but they had a very short tenure, ending on 1 January 1990. “The Election Commissioner Amendment Act, 1989” was adopted on 1 January 1990 which turned the commission into a multi-member body: a 3-member Commission has been in operation since then and the decisions by the commission are made by a majority vote.^[2][7]

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The commission is served by its secretariat located in New Delhi.^[2] The Election Commissioners are assisted by Deputy Election Commissioners, who are generally IAS officers. They are further assisted by Directors General, Principal Secretaries, and Secretaries and Under Secretaries.^[2][8]