Kohima, March 1 (MExN): The Election Commission of India has launched an intensive drive called ‘National Electoral Rolls Purification (NERP) 2016’ from March 1, 2016. The programme which will continue till August 31, 2016 will include enrolment of all eligible citizens and removal of repeated and multiple entries; entries of dead, shifted and absent voters, correction of errors in EPIC and removal of other data errors. During this drive, repeat images will also be corrected, missing photographs will be collected and poor quality of image will be replaced by good quality photographs. Polling station related issues such as rationalization in a holistic and comprehensive way shall also be addressed during this period. Standardization and rationalization of sections within a part, Part/PS boundaries and polling station locations demarcation shall be undertaken keeping in view the voters' convenience and facilities available along with the ease of conduct of poll in the future. All stakeholders such as political parties, NGOs, village authority, town/ward authority and general voters are requested to extend utmost co-operation to the District Election. Authority and the Election department in this endeavour to improve the fidelity of our electoral rolls and re-organization of polling stations with Basic Minimum Facilities (BMFs) for voters' facilitation and convenience. This was stated in a press release issued by Sanjay Kumar, IAS Chief Electoral Officer, Kohima.
