{"id":6720,"date":"2026-04-21T23:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/delegates-from-17-countries-to-witness-west-bengal-tamil-nadu-polling-under-eci-programme-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:44:49","slug":"delegates-from-17-countries-to-witness-west-bengal-tamil-nadu-polling-under-eci-programme-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/delegates-from-17-countries-to-witness-west-bengal-tamil-nadu-polling-under-eci-programme-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Delegates from 17 countries to witness West Bengal, Tamil Nadu polling under ECI programme | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130423319,imgsize-78570,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-1.jpg\" alt=\"Delegates from 17 countries to witness West Bengal, Tamil Nadu polling under ECI programme\" title=\"ECI flags off Phase-II of International Election Visitors' Programme\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"ECI flags off Phase-II of International Election Visitors' Programme\">ECI flags off Phase-II of International Election Visitors&#8217; Programme<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Delegates from 17 countries, including representatives from their foreign missions in Delhi, will witness polling in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu on Thursday as part of the Election Commission\u2019s International Election Visitors\u2019 Programme (IEVP) 2026.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>This is the second leg of the programme; the first phase had seen 43 delegates from 23 countries experiencing the polling process first-hand in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on April 8 and 9.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated the second edition of IEVP at the Indian International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) on Tuesday. As many as 34 delegates from 17 countries, including representatives from their foreign missions here, and a representative of International IDEA are participating in this phase.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The delegated will visit Tamil Nadu and West Bengal from April 22 to April 23, 2026. They will visit the dispatch and distribution centres and other facilities, including district control rooms and media monitoring centres. On April 23 morning, the delegates will witness the polling as it happens.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The delegates were on Tuesday given a demonstration of the EVM at IIIDEM. They took part in the mock poll using the machines, getting a hands-on experience of the voting process. The international visitors evinced keen interest in the technological interventions and administrative safeguards for the election process in India. An interactive session had experts clarifying the doubts\/queries of delegates.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>IEVP is a flagship program of the ECI for international cooperation and engagement with the election management bodies (EMBs) of other countries and international organizations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>The programme provides a comprehensive overview of India\u2019s electoral framework, institutional mechanisms, and operational architecture, besides familiarising foreign EMB delegates with best practices and innovations in election management.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/delegates-from-17-countries-to-witness-west-bengal-tamil-nadu-polling-under-eci-programme\/articleshow\/130423217.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECI flags off Phase-II of International Election Visitors&#8217; Programme NEW DELHI: Delegates from 17 countries, including representatives from their foreign missions in Delhi, will witness polling in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu on Thursday as part of the Election Commission\u2019s International Election Visitors\u2019 Programme (IEVP) 2026.This is the second leg of the programme; the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}