Election Commission of India collaborates with NACEN
THE Election Commission of India (ECI) has put in place a robust election expenditure monitoring mechanism, which have yielded positive results. For effective expenditure monitoring the agencies concerned have to play a proactive role in helping fine-tune the existing expenditure monitoring mechanism in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
To understand the domain expertise of each agency along with its organizational concerns and limitations, the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) of ECI in collaboration with the Multi-Disciplinary School of Economic intelligence (MDSEI) of NACEN under the Central Board of Excise and Customs, is organizing a workshop on "Election Expenditure Monitoring: Challenges in Intelligence Gathering and Sharing" today (16 January 2014). The workshop is to be inaugurated by the Chief Election Commissioner and sessions will be chaired by the Election Commissioners. The Secretary (Finance) will deliver the Valedictory address.
The Morning session will have a brief introduction on the 'objective of the workshop' by, DG, NACEN followed by speeches from the Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampat and the other two Election Commissioners. They have lined up an array of speakers who are all the top bureaucrats of the country to enlighten on various issues like:
S. No. | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
1 | Challenges and Concerns in Monitoring of Election Expenses | DG, ECI |
2 | Limitations and Obstacles in Economic intelligence gathering and sharing. | DG, CEIB |
3 | Tracking Cash transactions and gathering effective intelligence during pre-election days | Chairperson, CBDT |
4 | Hawala during elections | Director, Enforcement |
5 | Limitation of Banks in sharing information during elections | Chairman, Indian Banks Association. |
6 | Types of intelligence inputs relevant to Election expenditure; Role of DRI and Air Intelligence Unit | Chairperson, CBEC |
7 | Airport as a sensitive point for movement of cash during elections | DG, CISF |
8 | Movement of cash across international borders | DG, BSF |
9 | Effective intelligence and tracking of currency | Delhi Police Commissioner |