The Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia-Sanskriti IAS

Chief Election Commissioner of India and current Chairman, FEMBoSA Shri Sushil Chandra inaugurated the 11th Annual meeting of the Forum of the Election Management Bodies of SouthAsia (FEMBoSA) for the year 2021.
The Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia, represents a very large part of the democratic world and is an active regional cooperation association of Election Management Bodies. It was established at the 3rd Conference of Heads of Election Management Bodies of SAARC Countries held at New Delhi in 2012.
Besides ECI, the other 7 members are EMBs from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The annual FEMBoSA meeting is held by rotation among the members. For the year 2021 the meeting was hosted by the Election Commission of Bhutan.
The objectives of the Forum are to promote contact among the EMBs of the SAARC countries; share experiences with a view to learning from each other and cooperate with one another in enhancing the capabilities of the EMBs towards conducting free and fair elections.

The Forum of the Election Management Bodies of South Asia