Ahmedabad Election Commission of India today held West Zonal Conference of Chief Electoral Officers on National Electoral Roll Purification & Authentication Programme(NERPAP). The aim of the programme is linking and authentication of EPIC data of electors with Aadhar data of UIDAI, corrections of errors or any relevant entry pertaining to electors within 15 days on production of documentary evidence, improvement of image quality, obtaining and feeding in the ER database, the mobile and...Read More

Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat state, Smt Anita Karwal Newsdesk, Ahmedabad, 2 April 2014 The Election Commission of India will today issue a notification for the general elections of Lok Sabha for 26 seats of Gujarat. The state is also going to witness assembly by-polls on seven seats for which the schedule is same. The process of filing nominations for the first phase of the polls has begun with the issuance of this notification. The last date of filing nomination...Read More

Gandhinagar, 14 March 2014 In her brief talk to media persons, Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) of Gujarat Mrs. Anita Karwal said around one lakh police and non-police staff had been trained in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha general elections. She said, over 79,000 posters and hoardings were removed following implementation of the model code of conduct in the state. The election commission has received 18 complaints in Gujarat regarding violation of model code of co...Read More

Ahmedabad, 5 March 2014 Addressing a press conference in Gujarat capital today afternoon, the Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat Anita Karwal made following announcements and shared related details: -There shall be 27,360 polling station buildings across Gujarat. Some auxiliary polling stations could be added if needed subsequently. -Out of total 27,360 buildings, urban areas will have 5,646 buildings while rural areas will have 21,714 buildings. -Age group wi...Read More

Anita Karwal is among the officers promoted today By our correspondent, Gandhinagar, 17 April 2013 Gujarat government has today promoted seven Gujarat cadre IAS officers of 1988 batch and one IAS officer of 1982 batch to Principal Secretary rank. Secretaries promoted today are Arun Kumar Sutaria, S.Aparna, B.B.Swain, Mukesh Puri, A.K.Sharma, Sanjay Nandan, Anuradha Mall and Anita Karwal. I Shri Arun Kumar S. Sutaria, lAS (RR:GUJ: 1982), Revenue Inspection Commissioner...Read More

Ahmedabad, 17 December 2012 According to Chief Electoral Officer, Gujarat, Smt Anita Karwal, Gujarat has witnessed around 70.20% average turnout today. According to Karwal Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar and Panchmahal districts have witnessed around 72% voting while lowest 64.5% voting has been witnessed in Kutch district. The details of other districts are following: Ahmedabad 70% Kutch 64.5% Banaskantha 72% Patan 70% Mehsana 71% Sabarkantha 72% Gand...Read More

Ahmedabad, 14 December 2012 Chief Electoral Officer (Gujarat) IAS Anita Karwal voted today with her husband IPS Atul Karwal(Mount Everest summit fame) and daughters. Read More

Ahmedabad, 17 November 2012 The Election Commission of India today issued a notification for the first phase of Gujarat assembly elections covering a total of 87 seats of Saurashtra, South Gujarat and Ahmedabad rural. The process of filing nominations for the first phase of the polls has begun with the issuance of this notification. The last date of filing nominations is 24 November. Scrutiny of forms will take place on 25-26 November. The last date of withdrawal of fo...Read More

Ahmedabad, 19 October 2012 The Election Commission of India (ECI) reprimanded Gujarat Agriculture and Law minister Dileep Sanghani for violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Sanghani was served a notice on 9 October and was asked to reply it till October 15 to submit his written reply to the commission. According to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Gujarat, Anita Karwal, The minister had performed ground-breaking ceremony for a paved road in Amreli municipality area o...Read More