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The Tamil Nadu State Election Commission is an autonomous, independent Constitutional and Statutory authority of Tamil Nadu. It was formed under the Constitution of India as per the provisions of the 73rd and 74th Amendments Acts of 1992 on 15 July 1994. [2] All Local Body elections of Tamil Nadu are conducted by this Commission.
The department is responsible for enabling the conduction of free and fair elections in coordination with the Election Commission of India and its entities. [1] [2] The department is responsible for infrastructure for storage of Electronic Voting Machines, maintaining IT infrastructure for elections, electoral roll maintenance and issue of voter identity cards, voter awareness and appointment ...
In 1962, he was appointed as the director of transport of Madras (now Tamil Nadu), [5] [7] and in 1964, he was appointed collector of Madurai district. After two and a half years, he went to study at Harvard University on Edward S. Mason Fellowship where he earned a master's degree in public administration in 1968. [ 5 ]
2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election (Election to Aravakurichi and Thanjavur were cancelled by the EC on confirmed reports of bribing voters) 134: 89: 8: 1: 0: 2: 232 25 May 2016: Tirupparankundram AIADMK MLA S M Seenivel passes away [1] 133: 89: 8: 1: 0: 3: 231 22 November 2016: First By-Election (19 November 2016) [2] 136: 89: 8: 1 ...
By 1957, the government had agreed to form a standing sub-committee of the EC on public undertakings. In 1958, the congress formed the V. K. Krishna Menon committee. which put forward a number of recommendations intended to reconcile the accountability of public undertakings to parliament while keeping their autonomy on one hand and also ...
The east coast of Tamil Nadu was one of the areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, during which almost 8000 people died in the disaster. [112] The sixth most populous state in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu was the seventh-largest economy in 2005 among the states of India. [113]
When formed in 1950, the Election Commission of India was a single member body with only the Chief Election Commissioner.As per The Election Commissioner Amendment Act, 1989, the Commission was made a multi-member body with two additional election commissioners who were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989.
Salem is a major textile centre in Tamil Nadu, with more than 125 spinning mills, weaving units and garment units. Until the 1960s, it had fewer spinning mills. Private handloom weaving began to increase in the region after the 1960s and during the 1980s, the textile industry expanded with major spinning mills and dyeing units established ...