Telangana Government has constituted a screening committee to examine the proposals relating to regulation and enforcement of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the State Assembly elections.
Constituted a day after the schedule for the forthcoming elections was announced by the Election Commission of India, the screening committee would be headed by the Chief Secretary as chairperson. The committee will have secretary/principal secretary/special chief secretary of the departments concerned and secretary/principal secretary of the General Administration/coordination department as members.
The committee would examine each proposal before sending it to the ECI through the Chief Electoral Officer in the light of the ECI’s existing instructions/clarifications available in the compendium/instructions mentioned in the ECI portal. The proposals cleared by the committee should be submitted to the CEO along with full details and a note of urgency mentioning why the proposal could not wait till the completion of the election.
The CEO should take further action towards only such proposals that were cleared by the screening committee to the Election Commission along with a self-contained note. The CEO should communicate the decision of the ECI immediately on its receipt, a Government order issued on Tuesday said. The committee had been constituted following the advice of the ECI, the order added.
