ELECTION MACHINERY

The Commission has a seperate Secretarist at New Delhi consisting of about 300 officials,in a hierarchical set up. Two Deputy Election Commissioners who are the the senior most officers in the Secreteriat assist the Commission.They are generally appointed from the national civil servise of thr country and ara selected and appointed by the Commission with tenure.Directors,Principal Secretaries and Secreteries,Under Secreteries and Deputy Directors support the Deputy Election Commissioners in turn.There is functional and territorial distribution of work in the Commission.The work is organised in Divisions,Branches, and sections each of the last mentioned units is in charge of a Section Officers.The main functional divisions are Planning,Judicial,administration,Information Systems,Media and Secretariat Co-ordination.

                                                                  At the district and constituency levels,the District Election Officers,Electarol Registration Officers and Returning Officers,who are assisted by a lage number of junior functionaris , perform eletion work. they all perform their funtions relating to elections in addition ot their other responsibility. During eletion time ,however, they are available to the Commission , more or less,on afull time basis.