<span style="color: #222222;">Continuing the push for wide ranging reforms, Election Commission has decided to set up a Core Committee headed by Secretary General of the Commission to identify learning, experiences, shortcomings from recently Poll-gone States of Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and UT of Puducherry. The committee has been broadly tasked to identify the shortcomings or gaps in Election Commission regulatory regime and the gaps in implementation and enforcement at the level of CEOs or District officials. The Committee will examine the need for strengthening legal or regulatory framework enabling the Commission to more effectively ensure compliance of guidelines or directions including the COVID norms. It has also been asked to collate, analyse experiences, best practices across States and UT and suggest way forward and further reforms required. Deputy Election Commissioners of the ECI and CEOs of recent poll gone States and few select Special Observers and Observers will be members of the Committee. While finalising its recommendations, the Committee will also take inputs from State Nodal Officers of different divisions like Police, Expenditure, Health authorities as well as from some DEOs, SPs and ROs identified by CEOs, Polling officials, BLOs about the issues and challenges faced at the grass root levels.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The panel will also examine the recommendations of the nine Working Groups which were set up post Lok Sabha Elections, 2019 in light of experiences in the Poll gone States. Election Commission said, recommendations of the Core Committee will help it to chalk out way forward for forthcoming polls in future. The Core Committee has been asked to submit its report within a month.</span><br />''  <br />