A North Zone symposium on Best Electoral Practices was held on 25th July, 2014 at Hotel Mount View, Sector-10, Chandigarh. There were 30 participants (Chief Electoral Officers, Addl. CEOs, IGP Ranges/ SPs & District Electoral Officers) from Northern States/UTs (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, UP, J&K, Rajasthan & Uttrakhand, Delhi & UT Chandigarh) who attended the symposium. It was chaired by Election Commissioner, ECI along with DG, ECI & CEO, UT Chandigarh.

There were five sessions on following five topics:
1.    Management of Electoral Rolls
2.    Voter’s Education & Electoral Participation
3.    Security Management
4.    Innovation in use of Technology
5.    Expenditure Monitoring & Tracking Money Power.
For Presentation: Each Participant made one presentation on one of the above Topic ( 07 minutes for the presentation and 03 minutes for question & answer session).

NIC Haryana, from Northern states, was selected for presenting the “e-Dashboard Haryana for poll Management” under the heading Innovations in use of Technology in the symposium by Sh. Srikant Walgad, IAS CEO, Haryana. Sh. Surjeet Singh, Scientist “E”, NIC Haryana was deputed to make the presentation on e-Dashboard Haryana for poll Management & to apprise the house on the ICT implementation & Innovations in use of Technology in Haryana, during the Lok Sabha Elections-2014.

The DG, ECI appreciated the efforts of NIC Haryana for successful development & implementation of e-Dashboard for poll management on poll day and counting day. He informed that he will discuss the details with ECI, IT Team & may call NIC Haryana team to ECI for further discussion.