The Election Commission (EC) has deployed about 200 expenditure observers in the five poll-bound States to keep a watch on abuse of money power to influence voters. On Sunday, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Nasim Zaidi and Election Commissioners A.K. Rawat briefed the Expenditure Observers drawn from various services on measures to be taken to check malpractices as part of the Model Code of Conduct guidelines. Election Commissioner O.P. On the mechanism of election expenditure monitoring, the expenditure observers were also briefed by Deputy Election Commissioners, Umesh Sinha, Vijay Dev, Director-Generals Dilip Sharma, Sudeep Jain, and Directors Dhirendra Ojha and Vikram Batra.

Source: The Hindu January 09, 2017 18:00 UTC