The Election Commission was awaiting communication from the government on various electoral reforms, including on the issue of criminalisation of politics, Chief Election Commissioner T S Krishnamurthy said on Saturday.

"We have already sent 22 proposals for electoral reforms to the government quite some time ago," Krishnamurthy told reporters in New Delhi.

The Union government has said that these would be discussed at an all party meeting and so far there has been no further communication, he said.

"We are quite happy," was his reply when asked about the conduct of elections in Bihar.

The commission was taking new steps on electoral rolls after the Maharashtra assembly elections to make them as perfect as possible, Krishnamurthy said.

He refused to comment on the demand by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for reverting to ballot paper instead
of using EVMs.

When asked on reported indications or speculations about advancement of assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, the CEC said "the commission does not go by conjectures, press reports or by any speculations.

"We have our own schedule and act only on its decision," Krishnamurthy said.

He said that the commission was taking active steps for revision of rolls and asked the electorate of Tamil Nadu to take advantage and associate themselves with the process.

The commission was using post offices and computer registration and wanted to increase the electoral photo identity card coverage, so  that "we have accurate electoral rolls", he said.