The Election Commission will finalise in September the draft of changes to the existing guidelines for foreign election observers and journalists.
Ashok Kumar Debnath, additional secretary at at EC secretariat, said this after an inter-ministerial meeting at the commission today.
He said it was the first meeting held between the commission and ministries concerned who reviewed the guidelines.
Officials from the ministries of foreign affairs, home and information, and the National Board of Revenue were present at the meeting.
"We will sit again next week," Ashok said, adding that he reviewed the current foreign election observer policy.
No final decision has been made yet about the changes to the policy, the additional secretary said.
