Platform to integrate 40 existing apps and enhance user experience
New Delhi, May 4 (MExN): In a major announcement, the Election Commission of India (ECI) informed on Sunday that it is developing a new user-friendly digital interface for electors and other stakeholders such as election officials, political parties, and civil society.
The new one-stop platform, ECINET, will integrate and reorient over 40 of ECI’s existing mobile and web applications, it added in an official statement.
According to the ECI, ECINET will have an aesthetic User Interface (UI) and a simplified User Experience (UX) by providing a singular platform for all electoral-related activities. It is designed to “alleviate the burden of the users for downloading and navigating multiple apps and remembering different logins.”
ECINET will also enable users to access relevant electoral data on their desktops or smartphones. To ensure that the data is as accurate as possible, it will be entered solely by authorised ECI officials, the Commission stated.
Entry by the concerned officials would ensure that the data made available to stakeholders is as accurate as possible. However, in case of any conflict, the primary data as duly filled in statutory forms will prevail, it added.
The platform was envisaged by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, Gyanesh Kumar, during the Conference of Chief Electoral Officers (CEOs) held in March 2025, in the presence of Election Commissioners Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr Vivek Joshi.
ECINET will subsume existing apps like the Voter Helpline App, Voter Turnout App, cVIGIL, Suvidha 2.0, ESMS, Saksham, and KYC App, which together have clocked over 5.5 crore downloads.
The new platform is expected to benefit nearly 100 crore electors and the entire electoral machinery comprising over 10.5 lakh Booth Level Officers (BLOs), around 15 lakh Booth Level Agents (BLAs) appointed by political parties, nearly 45 lakh polling officials, 15,597 Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), 4,123 Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), and 767 District Election Officers (DEOs) across the country.
ECINET has already reached an advanced stage of development, and rigorous trials are being conducted to ensure smooth functionality, ease of use, and robust cybersecurity measures, the ECI informed.
It is being developed after an elaborate consultative exercise involving 36 CEOs of all the States/UTs, 767 DEOs, and 4,123 EROs of their States/UTs, and after reviewing 76 publications comprising 9,000 pages of the electoral framework, instructions, and handbooks issued by the ECI from time to time, it added.
The data provided through ECINET, the Commission underscored, will be strictly aligned within the legal framework established by the Representation of the People Act, 1950 and 1951, the Registration of Electoral Rules, 1960, the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, and instructions issued by the ECI from time to time.
