While assembly elections and by-elections were announced on March 15, the Electronic Seizure Management System (ESMS) was activated on February 26, it said.
Since its activation, over ₹ 408.82-crore worth of illicit inducements, including ₹ 17.44 crore in cash, liquor worth ₹ 37.68 crore (16.3 lakh litres), drugs worth ₹ 167.38 crore, precious metals worth ₹ 23 crore and other freebies worth over ₹ 163.30 crore, have been seized by multiple enforcement agencies, the EC said.
Besides, between March 15 and 25, 70,944 complaints have been lodged using the cVigil application. Of these, 70,831 have been disposed of and 67,899 complaints — 95.8% — were resolved within 100 minutes, it said.
cVIGIL is a mobile application developed by the EC to enable citizens to report model code of conduct violations during elections.
Assembly elections will be held in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala next month.
