'cVigil to help ensure free & fair elections'

Hoshiarpur, December 11

Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyait on Saturday said that cVigil app is a landmark step in conducting the ensuing assembly elections in a free, fair and transparent manner.

Presiding over a training, the Deputy Commissioner said the app was launched by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and used for the first time in 2019 general elections. She said the app was amongst the other novel ways to ensure the electoral participation of the techno savvy youth besides simplifying the poll related works and bringing its functioning in tune with the changing times.

She said cVigil provides evidence-based proof of the model code of conduct/expenditure violation, having live photo/video with auto location data. Riyait said any citizen could lodge a complaint through App which was further investigated by flying aquads and subsequent action would be taken by the returning officer. The DC said as soon as the complaint was lodged action had to be initiated on it and it had to be resolved within 100 minutes. She said if the complainant does not want to get identified then his credentials had to be kept secret. — OC