With an aim to build an active informed democratic citizenry in the country, Election Commission has launched mobile apps, however, there are a very few takers for these apps. As many as five mobile apps have been launched by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and state election commission has come up with three apps to make people poll savvy and make them vigilant voters.
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The apps provide information on all aspects of election management, submitting complaints, finding nearest polling station, searching name in the voters list, list of candidates contesting elections and their details, affidavits, past elections date etc. However, the poor download number is indicative of the fact that a very few voters are taking interest in them the C-vigil app has over 5 lakh downloads across India that is much less a figure if the population is taken into consideration.
Similarly, the voter turnout app launched by the ECI ten days ago has merely 10000 downloads. When Free Press spoke to a few informed youths who keep abreast of latest mobile applications, they expressed their ignorance about the apps launched by EC. The commission initiatives seem to be suffering due to either lack of publicity or lack of voters’ interest.
