An educated person with high caliber and social concern fails to get elected due to lack of money. To encourage competent, capable individuals with honesty and integrity’, certain measures have been taken by’ the concern authority. The state by providing material benefits like supply’of fuel for vehicles, papers for election literature and other purposes checks the candidates from becoming corrupt. With regard to state funding of elections. Indrajit Gupta Committee was formed in 1998. 

The Committee recommended as follows:-

(a) To Minimize the election expenses of political parties, a part of it to be borne by the State. 

(b) State funding should be in the form of kind not in cash. 

(c) It recommended separate election fund to be created and the annual contribution of central government is Rs.600 crores and that of all the states should be Rs.600 crores. 

(d) State funding to be confined to the recognized parties by the Election Commission. 

(e) To avail the state funding benefits the political parties must submit their income tax returns. 

(f) Free election telecasting and broad casting to all the political parties on government owned Television. Radio and other private channels. 

(g) The details of expenditure should be given to the Election Commission within the specified time. 

(h) It recommended for reasonable restrictions writing on wall, display of cutouts, banners, posters and buntings.