Draft publication of Electoral Rolls launched
Kohima, October 1 (DIPR): The Nagaland State Election Department today launched the draft publication of Electoral Rolls for Special Summary Revision, 2017 at Hotel Japfü here.
Chief Electoral Officer, Sanjay Kumar (IAS), who was the main speaker at the event, stated that the State has been embarking on the statutory process of drafting the publication of Electoral Rolls for Special Summary Revision, 2017, which will be important for the conduct of the forthcoming elections. He urged all the stakeholders to be proactive in bringing clean and accurate Electoral Rolls so that the State can have free and transparent elections.
The main purpose of the massive exercise (Special Summary Revision) is to ensure that any voter who has attained the eligible age is not left out, he said. At the same time, it is to purge multiple entries and manipulation in the E-Roll. He also asked the people to access the National Voters’ Service Portal stating it is very useful for the political parties to keep abreast of the latest trends in order to sensitize the general public about the directives issued by the ECI.
He also urged the political parties, BLOs, Campus Ambassadors and NGOs to actively extend full cooperation and support in order to achieve the statutory process for Special Summary Revision.
Political parties like BJP, NCP and AAP besides State icons participated in the programme.
Mon
The draft publication and handing out of the draft Electoral Roll to the political parties was done in Mon on October 1 at the ADC office chamber.
Asserting that E-Roll is the holy book for the politicians and political parties, the DC Mon, Honje Konyak urged the political parties to take keen interest during the Summary Revision to have clean E-Roll for clean elections. The DC lamented that voters, politicians and political parties give lesser importance during such revision conducted every year and show their seriousness only during elections. In this regard, the DC urged upon the political parties to take active participation and appoint Booth Level Agents (BLA) in all the villages to help the BLOs in verifying the genuine voters.
Pointing out that wrong notion/ information was being spread that there will be delimitation of assembly constituency if there were lesser voters, the DC clarified that delimitation is not determined by the Electoral Rolls. Any kind of delimitation, he said, depends on general population and not on voters’ population or E-Roll; moreover, the delimitation has to be passed in the Legislative Assembly. Therefore, he urged all the political parties, churches, NGOs and civil societies to help spread awareness on maintaining actual voters’ record.
The DC & DEO also informed the schedule for Special Summary Revision as follows: Filing of claims and objections – October 1 to 31; Reading of relevant part/section of Photo Electoral Rolls in Gram sabha/local bodies and RWA meetings etc and verification of names – October 7 and 14; Special campaign dates with Booth Level Agents of political parties for receiving claims and objection – October 8 and 22; Final publication of Electoral Rolls – January 10, 2017.
Mokokchung
In Mokokchung, draft publication of Electoral Roll for Special Summary Revision was announced at a meeting held in the conference hall of District Planning Office on October 1.
DC & District Election Officer, Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel appealed to all political parties and all concerned to cooperate with the Election department in the Special Summary Revision to make the E-Roll “hundred percent error-free”. He urged to check double entry, death, new entry of electors to make the Electoral Roll clean.
Soft copies of E-Roll draft publication were issued to political parties. As notified earlier, period of filing claims and objections will be held from October 1 to 31, special campaign with Booth Level Agents of political parties for receiving claims and objections will be carried out from October 8 to 22, and disposal of claims and objections by November 30, 2016. Updating of database, merging of photographs, updating the control tables and preparation and printing of supplementary list will be made on December 24, 2016 and the final publication of E-Roll will be done on January 10, 2017.
The meeting was attended by ADC & Electoral Registration Officer, Bendangliba, all the administrative officers, representatives from all the political parties and NGOs.
Meeting with political parties in Peren
Peren, October 1 (DIPR): With regard to the Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls, a meeting was held on September 29 at DC conference hall here with different political parties in Peren district. S. Tainiu, ADC & ERO Peren asked the political parties to submit names of Booth Level Agents from each of the political party for each polling station for better co-ordination and clean Electoral Roll at the earliest date. She also informed that BLOs of all the polling stations in Peren district were imparted training on Summary Revision Exercises. She also revealed that despite disability population, enrolment of voters with disability could not be identified. She requested the political parties to update on such voters. She further impressed upon the gathering to update themselves with all electoral processes to sensitize their voters.
Nathan Konyak, AEO Peren informed that filing of claims and objections can be done till October 20. He added that there is a provision for continuous minor updation of Electoral Roll. Political parties interacted with the ERO and AEO to clarify certain doubts.
Cleaning up E-Roll of Tuensang district
Tuensang, October 1 (DIPR): A District Level Co-ordination Committee meeting was held regarding Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls at DC conference hall, Tuensang on October 1. The meeting was attended by the committee members, NGOs, church leaders, GBs, political party leaders, youths, differently abled voters etc.
Alem Jongshi, Deputy Commissioner and DEO Tuensang, introduced the Summary Revision of E-Roll to be held from October 1 to 31. The Summary Revision will focus on inclusion, correction, and deletion of voters in the Electoral Roll of the district. He encouraged all the members to deliberate on the matter and do the necessary corrections in the Electoral Roll. He also explained the idea of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for free and fair election. For this, timely awareness meetings are being held as per the directives of the ECI, he said. “The rights of the people in forming a government should be realized by all, so we should contribute our exercise to form a government which is citizen friendly,” the DC added.
The members also contributed opinions and suggestions to do away with proxy votes and under aged voters from the Electoral Roll of the district.
Emphasis to include people with disabilities
Kohima, October 1 (DIPR): The Additional Deputy Commissioner & Electoral Registration Officer, Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi held a meeting with the recognized political parties, NGOs, civil societies and media at DC’s conference hall, Kohima on October 1. The meeting was held in connection with the conduct of Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls with reference to 01.01.2017 as the qualifying date.
Lithrongla announced the draft publication of Electoral Roll and said that from October 1 to 31, there will be filing of claims and objections. Informing that there will be special campaign with Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of political parties for receiving claims and objections on October 8 and 22, she said that the political parties are supposed to appoint the BLAs in a prescribed Form ID:BLA 2 from each polling booth/station. The BLAs will be associated with the special campaign for E-Roll Revision process along with Booth Level Officers (BLOs). On the special campaign dates, the BLOs will go through the draft Electoral Roll with BLAs and identify the corrections etc.
She also requested the political parties to inform their BLAs to see that people with disabilities above 18 years of age are enrolled since many a time such people have been excluded. Pointing out that not a single NRI is registered in the Electoral-Roll though “many of our people stay abroad,” she requested the political parties to indentify how many NRIs are there in their respective constituencies for enrollment. Regarding submission of application forms, she said that the BLAs can submit the application forms in bulk with a maximum number of 10 forms at a time. The forms can be submitted three times a month with a maximum of 30 forms during the entire period from October 1 to 31.
Meanwhile, Assistant Election Officer, Mhathung Ngullie stressed that the involvement of political parties, NGOs, civil societies, individual is required to create awareness on the Special Summary Revision to clean the Electoral Roll and have peaceful election in the near future. He informed that for the new electors who are being enrolled this time, EPIC will be distributed in the month of October by the BLOs. He also informed that a total of 825 voters were deleted from a total number of 1,37,077 electors in the E-Roll of the district during the purification drive from March to September 2016.
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