The Election Commission of India (ECI) has introduced a digital time voucher system for political parties to access government-owned electronic media.
With this facilitation, the political parties will not be required to send their representatives to ECI Offices for collection of the time vouchers physically during elections.
The scheme, which was initially notified on 16th January 1998, holds a statutory basis under Section 39A of the R.P. Act, 1951.
Under this Scheme, an equitable base time is allotted to each National Party and Recognized State Party of the state concerned uniformly on DD & AIR.