General Elections 2014: Highest Ever Voter Turn-Out
General Election 2014 has seen the highest ever voter-turnout in India with 66.4 % of the electorate casting vote. The previous highest was 64.01%, recorded in 1984. In the previous General Elections held in 2009, voter turnout was 58.19%. In absolute numbers, out of the total 834,101,479 electors, 553,801,801 people cast their vote in General Election 2014. Out of this, 65.3% were female voters and 67.09 % were male.

General Elections 2014 has seen the lowest ever number of Independent candidates getting elected. Out of a total of 8251 contestants, 3234 were Independent candidates; out of this, 3 candidates have been elected. In the previous General Elections held in 2009, the total number of Independent candidates was 3831 out of which 9 were elected. The highest ever number of Independents elected is 42 (Second General Elections, 1957); the number of Independent candidates contested was highest at 10635 in 11th General Elections, held in 1996.

Revised result of UTTARAKHAND PCS-2010.

Revised result of UTTARAKHAND PCS-2010.
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election result

World’s biggest democratic exercise- India’s 16th Lok Sabha (Lower House) elections which ran from April, 7 to May 12, 2014 are over and its verdict is out. Of the total 543 seats for which elections were contested, BJP led NDA achieved a thumping victory on 336 seats, whereas, Congress led UPA has faced thorough defeat in 6 key states winning just 59 seats, and the Congress, 44 seats. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which contested on 424 seats has faced debacle as it could win just 4 seats. AAP leader and former Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejrival, who contested against the Narendra Modi from Varanasi, defeated by a huge margin of more than 3 lakh votes.

With this NDA victory, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is all set to be the head of the newly elected Indian Government.

Some high spots of Lok Sabha polls 2014:

It was 16th Lok Sabha election.
Election Commission of India conducted election in 9 phases, longest election in the country’s history.
8,251 candidates contested for 543 constituencies in India.
814.5 million People were eligible voters, with an increase of 100 million voters since the last general election in 2009, making this the largest-ever election in the world.
Average election turnout was around 66.38%, the highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.
With more than six times the seats of its closest contenders, Modi’s is the most decisive mandate for a leader since the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi propelled her son to office. Since 1989, India has been governed by coalitions.
With 282 seats, the BJP has won the highest number of seats by a single party in the modern, post-regional politics era, compared with 244 for the Congress in 1991 and 206 for it in 2009.
It is the worst ever performance by Congress compared to its show in other previous General Elections.
Since 1977, the BJP is the first non-Congress party to defeat Congress by such a huge margin. However, the biggest tally of seats achieved by a non-Congress party is 295 won by the Janata Party in the 1977 post-Emergency election that ousted Mrs. Gandhi from office.
BJP registered its biggest win in Uttar Pradesh winning 71 seats despite a big coalition partner, the best performance by a single party in the state since 1984 when the Congress won 83 of 85 seats.
Results Lok Sabha Polls 2014:

ALLIANCE TALLY
NDA (BJP + Allies) 335
UPA (Congress + Allies) 59
AAP 4
SP 5
BSP 0
AITC 34
JD(U) 2
LEFT 11
ADMK 37
OTHERS 56
TOTAL 543/543
VOTE SHARE:

Alliance Vote share (%)
NDA 35
UPA 23
LEFT 4
AITC 4
OTHERS 34

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone acquired the strategic Dhamra port in Odisha on the east coast of India for an enterprise value of Rs 5, 500 crore. The company inked a definitive pact to acquire the port from a 50:50 joint venture of Tata Steel and Larsen & Toubro. After the 2005 acquisition of Pipapav Port in Gujarat by APM Terminals BV from SKIL Infrastructure, the Dhamra deal is the largest port sector deal in India.

Dhamra Port:

Dharma Port - Odisha1Dhamra port is one of the deepest ports on the eastern coast of India. It was granted the rights by the Odisha government in 2004 to develop and operate for 30 years. The port is considered strategic as it is located to serve the mineral belt of the eastern states and in between competitors and government-controlled Haldia and Paradip ports.

Adani Ports and SEZ:
Gautam Adani-led Adani Ports and SEZ is listed on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and is 75% owned by Adani Enterprises, the flagship of Adani group. The company owns and operates 5 ports, of which three— Dahej, Hazira and Mundra—are in Gujarat. Dhamra port will help the company enhance its capacity to over 200 million tonne by 2020, making it a leader among private sector port operators in the country. Adani’s family firm also operates a coal loading terminal at Abbot Point in Queensland in Australia.

RBI to launch Plastic notes in 2015

RBI to launch Plastic notes in 2015
As per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, Plastic currency notes will be launched in 2015 after field trial which is likely to be conducted in the latter half of 2014. The pilot testing would be conducted in five cities- Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Bhubaneswar and Shimla.

One billion plastic notes of Rs.10 denomination will be released in the field trial in these cities chosen for their geographical and climatic diversity. Plastic currency notes have an average life span of about 5 years and are difficult to counterfeit. Also, these notes are cleaner than paper notes.