03 NOV 2025 5:18PM by PIB Delhi
- The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for the General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2025 and the bye-elections for 8ACs. The Commission has directed to the State/UT governments to ensure strict compliance with the instructions to enforce the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).
- 824 Flying squads have been deployed across Bihar to ensure that the complaints reported on C-VIGIL are attended to within 100 minutes.
- As on 03 November, 2025, over Rs 108.19 crores worth of illicit inducements including, Rs 9.62 crores in cash, liquor worth Rs. 42.14 crores (9.6 lakh litres), drugs worth Rs. 24.61 crores, precious metals worth Rs. 5.8 crores and other freebies worth over Rs. 26 crores have been seized through a coordinated approach involving multi-enforcement agencies across different States/UTs.
- The Commission has directed all the Enforcement Authorities to strictly monitor and combat movement of cash, drugs, liquor and other inducements during elections.
- The Commission also stressed that the enforcement authorities should ensure that ordinary citizens are not inconvenienced or harassed during the checking and inspection for the enforcement of these directives.
- Citizens/political parties can report MCC violations using the C-Vigil App on ECINET.
- A complaint monitoring system has been set up including a Call Centre number 1950 in which complaint can be lodged by any member of the public or political party, with the DEO/RO concerned. This system is operational 24X7.
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