ECI scheme for internally displaced persons

March 6, 2024

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has notified a scheme for internally displaced persons of Manipur to vote at the relief camps.
- More than 60,000 people were displaced within weeks of the ethnic violence that broke out on May 3, 2023.
- Most of them are lodged in relief camps.
After due consultations with the Central and State governments, it was decided that these electors would “continue to be borne on the electoral rolls of the Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies concerned” in Manipur.
The internally displaced electors would be provided with the facility to vote at “special polling stations” to be set up in the relief camps.
The election in the special polling stations will be conducted by using separate EVMs and all rules, directions, and instructions applicable to the conduct of the poll at the original polling stations will also apply at these special polling stations.
The maximum number of voters at each special polling station would be 1,200.