Final Cover Election Expenditure - Election Commission of India

advertisement shall be booked to the account of the political party. If such leader happens tobe a candidate in any constituency, the expenditure on such general party propaganda, evenif it contains his photo, in print and electronic media, shall not be booked to the account ofsuch leader, as it is in the nature of general party propaganda, without any reference to hisconstituency. (Commission’s letter NO.76/Instructions/2012/EEPS dated 20th January,2012, at Annexure 58)4.13. Expenditure Monitoring Cell:(i) The Nodal Officer of Expenditure Monitoring Cell in the district headquarters willcoordinate with the DEO for providing adequate manpower and facilities of office spaceand equipments. The Nodal Officer will train the manpower engaged in various teams ofthe expenditure monitoring work well in advance, before the notification of election. TheDEO can deploy any other officer or employee whose services are required forexpenditure monitoring.(ii) The Expenditure Monitoring Cell will videograph all public meetings/rallies politicalparties/potential candidates during the period between announcement of election by ECIand notification of election. All such expenditure incurred by political parties as per thevideo CDs/DVDs are to be calculated by this Cell and handed over to DEO forestimating the expenditure by the political parties, during such period. Although thisexpenditure is not to be included in candidate’s register, the party has to show thisexpenditure to the Commission, within 75 days of Assembly Poll or 90 days of LokSabha poll. The CEO shall collect district-wise report as to the total expenditure by theparty during this period and also the period up to declaration of result and forward to theCommission within 45 days of declaration of result.(iii) The Toll free number in complaint Monitoring Cell shall be given wide publicityencouraging the public to register complaints.5. Procedure for Expenditure Monitoring:Besides the functions of the teams mentioned in the above paragraphs the followingmonitoring procedure will be observed.5.1. Maintenance of Shadow Observation Register and folder of evidence:A Shadow Observation Register for each candidate shall be maintained by AccountingTeam in the format as enclosed at Annexure 11. This Register will be maintained in hardcopy and/or in excel sheet, with print outs (kept serially, page numbered) and the observedexpenditure as captured by various teams/reports of Expenditure Monitoring. The purposeof this Register is to cross check items of the major expenses incurred and reported by thecandidate.5.1..2. The accounting teams will get information on daily basis from the Video SurveillanceTeams, Video Viewing Teams, Media Expenditure Monitoring Teams, Surveillance Teamsand flying squads, for tracking illegal cash transactions, Call Center, Control Room. The23