{"id":22007,"date":"2024-03-30T04:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22007"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:44:27","slug":"c-vigil-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/c-vigil-app\/","title":{"rendered":"C-Vigil app"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About C-Vigil App<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a mobile application developed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to enable citizens to\u00a0report violations of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/model-code-of-conduct\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Model Code of Conduct (MCC)<\/u><\/a> during elections.<\/li>\n<li>Features of the app\n<ul>\n<li>It is a user-friendly and easy to operate application, which connects vigilant citizens with the\u00a0District Control Room, Returning Officer and Flying Squads Teams.<\/li>\n<li>By using this app, the citizens can immediately report on incidents of political misconduct within minutes and without having to rush to the office of the returning officer.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as the complaint is sent on the cVigil app, the complainant will\u00a0receive a unique ID\u00a0through which the person will be able to track the complaint on their mobile.<\/li>\n<li>Users capture audios, photos or videos in real-time, and a \u201c100-minute\u201d countdown for time-bound response to complaints is ensured.<\/li>\n<li>The app automatically enables a\u00a0geo-tagging feature as soon as the user switches on their camera in the cVIGIL to report a violation. This means that flying squads could know the precise location of a reported violation, and the image captured by citizens could be used as evidence in the court of law.<\/li>\n<li>It uses\u00a0GPS to track the location of the violation.It allows users to capture\u00a0the live incidents only.\u00a0It has a feature to report the case of MCC violation anonymously. It can be used to track the progress of the complaint in this app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Geotagging?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the process of appending geographic coordinates to media based on the location of a mobile device. Geotags can be applied to photos, videos, websites, text messages, and QR codes, and could also include time stamps or other contextual information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2016637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ECI\u2019s C-Vigil app a big hit with voters: over 79,000 violations reported so far through the complaints app since announcement of General Elections; 99 % cases disposed off<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-Vigil app is a mobile application developed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to enable citizens to report violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}