18. Attempts at Electoral Reforms and Previous Committees/Panels

The task of reforming election process in India is nothing new. The question of bringing about comprehensive changes in the election laws and electoral processes has been receiving the attention at various levels right from the time of the first general election. Several Committees and Panels have been assigned this task earlier. The most prominent of these official exercises in this regard have been:

♤ The Goswami Committee on Electoral Reforms (1990)

♤ The Vohra Committee Report (1993)

♤ The Indrajit Gupta Committee on State Funding of Elections (1998)

♤ The Law Commission Report on Reform of the Electoral Laws (1999)

♤ The National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution (2001)

♤ The ECI – Proposed Electoral Reforms (2004)

♤ The Second Administrative Reforms Commission (2008)

♤ The ECI Proposed Electoral Reforms (2016)

Some of the main recommendations of the aforementioned committees and panels are as under: