{"id":49512,"date":"2025-06-07T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T07:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49512"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:17:29","slug":"index-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/index-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Index Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Index Cards Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the Election Commission of India has streamlined, technology-driven system to generate Index Cards and various statistical reports after the conduct of the elections.<\/p>\n<h2>About Index Cards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a non-statutory,\u00a0<strong>post-election Statistical Reporting Format<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is developed as a suo moto initiative by the\u00a0<strong>Election Commission of India<\/strong>\u00a0(ECI) to promote accessibility of\u00a0<strong>election-related data at the constituency level<\/strong>\u00a0for all stakeholders, including researchers, academia, policymakers, journalists, and the general public.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to disseminate\u00a0<strong>data across multiple dimensions<\/strong>\u2014such as candidates, electors, votes polled, votes counted, party-wise and candidate-wise vote share, gender-based voting patterns, regional variations, and performance of political parties<\/li>\n<li>The Index Card forms the foundation for generating about\u00a0<strong>35 Statistical Reports<\/strong>\u00a0for Lok Sabha elections and 14 for\u00a0<strong>State Assembly elections.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These reports cover variables like State\/PC\/AC-wise elector details, number of\u00a0<strong>polling stations, state and constituency-wise voter turnout,<\/strong>\u00a0participation of women electors, performance of\u00a0<strong>national\/state parties<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Registered Unrecognized Political Parties<\/strong>\u00a0(RUPPs).<\/li>\n<li>Earlier,\u00a0<strong>this information was manually filled\u00a0<\/strong>at the Constituency level using various statutory formats in Physical Index Cards. These physical Index Cards were subsequently used for data entry into the online system to facilitate the generation of statistical reports.<\/li>\n<li>This manual, multi-layered process was time-consuming and frequently led to delays in data availability and dissemination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Index Cards FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Which elections are managed by the Election Commission of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0By Article 324 of the Constitution of India, it is vested with the power of conducting elections to \u2013 Parliament, State Legislatures, Office of President and Vice-President of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is a Registered Unrecognised Political Party?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:\u00a0<\/strong>These are the parties which are either newly registered parties or those which have not secured enough percentage of votes in the assembly or general elections to become a state party, or those which have never contested elections since being registered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/eci-upgrades-mechanism-for-index-cards-on-electoral-data-replaces-manual-entry\/article69660851.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index Cards is a non-statutory, post-election statistical reporting format used to compile and present key electoral data and outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[737],"class_list":{"0":"post-49512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-index-cards","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}