Question

report based on wastage of resources during election campaign

Answer 1

Central armed forces and state police personnel have to be on continuous duty on polling stations.

Numerous resources are wasted like fuel, vehicles, manpower, time and energy which account for the high budget of conducting elections in India.

Many government staff and teachers do not attend duty because they have to sit in polling stations as polling officers.

There were close to 10 lakh polling stations in the 2014 general election and the total expenditure was several lakh rupees.