મોબાઈલ-ફોન, કોમ્પ્યુટર અને ઈન્ટરનેટના ડિજીટલ યુગમાં ચૂંટણીઓ ઓનલાઈન કેમ ના થઇ શકે?
ઓનલાઈન પેમેન્ટ ટ્રાન્સફર થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન ખરીદી થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન વેચાણ થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન બીલ પેમેન્ટ થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન ઓપિનિયન પોલ થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન મીટીંગ થઇ શકે, ઓનલાઈન કોન્ફરન્સ થઇ શકે, ઓ
And when these accounted for, it could well exceed 1500 crores, gentlemen !
1000 crores is a gross under-estimation and vastly unduly charitable to the most uncharitable exercise of going to the polls, rather than just requesting NDA to got ahead and rule for another five years.
Nobody is assuring the nation anything basically required. The voters are largely being taken for nonsensical rides that would make little or no change in their lives the way it should.
After all that is what is going to take place - an NDA government with the changes of a few faces.
Only the bottle will be of 2004 model, the daaroo will be the same old daroo only.
It is just waste of money to Elect next gang of thugs to loot the Country. The Public Robbery (open corruption) is on the rise as anyone can see. If an IRS Officer can give 5 laks (exact figure is not important) for transfer to a particular place/post, one can imagine what he would have earned in his earlier postings and how much he plans to earn (thru illegal means) in the particular posting. And such 3 letter officials have the backing of the politicians.
The cost of the elections can be minimised to an extent, by introducing new rules. First, No person should be permitted to contest from any other place than his native place. Because, people from his native place certainly know how good or bad a person is. No one should be permitted to contest from more than one place at the same time and if any, the person should bear the cost of elections in 2 places, 2 times. That is 4 times since if elected from both the places, he has to vacate one seat (we can not say which) and elections have to be conducted again. Hence, one must be made to bear all the expenses, in advance, for 2 constituencies, 2 times elections. This will bring some order in elections.
Why not the Election Commission of India can implement the system by introducing Election Website to cast the Vote by Indian Citizens through it? Now we are living in electronic world and every one is using PC with internet access. Why not EC can do it?.
There no much higher cost. It is very cheaper. All Citizens can cast their vote. Illiterate can be guided by an Operator nominated by Election Commission.
While 99 out of 100 candidates hugely overspend on the election campaign why not a single candidate has been disqualified from contesting elcections? In India rules are framed only to be broken more prominently by the rule makers themselves!!
To the surprise note all over the world every body is talking of cost cutting. But in India Election expenses from term to term are increasing drastically. So A serious attempt has to be made to cut the expenses of conducting elections. In this regard my opinion is to utilize the Technology and develop an Election Conduting system that can be used repeatedly. Political leaders like Mr.Chandrababu naidu and Mr.S.M. Krishna who are heading the states which are very well developed in terms of technology has to come farward to put these efforts. More over the Political scenario in India has changed. As we are going to get coailation governments only here after, so we never know when do we need to face the elections again. It may be after 1 year or 2 year. So a Low cost Election Conduting system has to be developed. An Investment for 1 time to buy the technology can be utilised repeatedly. Where we save lot of Money which can be utilised for many development programs in India or it can be used atleast to repay the loan what we are taking from World Bank. With the use of Technology the Process of Election condution will be come very easy. A LOW COST AND VERY EFFECTIVE SOLUTION.
Can the government not issue as permanent identity card to every adult citizen of the country which will have information like passport # , driving licence # , PAN # , etc.. bar code scannable , valid document at any place ?? also why can't the govt conduct elections in municipal schools ?? so no need to spend additional money on the polling stations !! why should the government pay for the security of the ministers ??? if they have done something wrong only then will the ministers need to fear or else not !! easily Rs 500 crores can be saved. can IIM graduates not come up with a solution to this problem to save costs for the nation ?