From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Apr 17: Coastal Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts accounted for the maximum number of 166 and 159 applications respectively under Suvidha and Samadhan pertaining to election-related permissions, clearances.

Suvidha and Samadhan are the two citizen service applications developed and mandated by the Election Commission of India and is hosted in the CEO Karnataka website (ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in) and in all the district websites of Karnataka (hosted in .nic) for the citizen to access easily.

As many as 2010 applications for permissions were received under Suvidha and 1738 applications have been disposed of until today. 

A single window system for giving election-related permission/clearances within 24hours has been created.

In this system, candidates and political parties can apply for permissions for meetings, rallies, vehicles, temporary election office, loud speakers, etc at a single location, where back-end convergence of various authorities/departments has been done and within 24 hours a decision is to be taken.

Under the Samadhan system, as on today 810 complaints and suggestions have been lodged and 775 is disposed of.

Samadhan is a common platform for all complaints, grievances, concerns and suggestions lodged by any member of the public, including our various stakeholders like political parties, candidates, civil society groups etc. a citizen has the multi-modal facility to lodge any election-related complaint via bouquet of channels/sources like website, email, letter, fax, SMS, helpline -1950 etc.