Kohima, September 26 (DIPR): A meeting for special summary revision of electoral roll 2018 was held at Hotel Japfü, Kohima on September 25 with all the political parties.
CEO Nagaland, Abhijit Sinha (IAS) informed that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in all the future election and added no relaxation/deviation will be allowed in the upper limit of 1200 and 1400 electors in both rural and urban polling stations respectively.
The ECI, he said, has resolved to take up special summary revision of electoral rolls with reference to January 1, 2018 as the qualifying date. No change in the dates in the schedule approved by the Commission will be permitted.
It was further informed that adequate publicity and awareness drive will be ensured by DEOs and CEO regarding the summary revision programme. All the DEOs and CEO will get the revision schedule properly disseminated to media, political parties and social organizations should reach out to electors/eligible population extensively well before the date of draft publication of electoral rolls. Series of SVEEP events, multiple and periodic meetings with political parties at Taluk, district and state levels and regular press meets may also be organized.
All DEOs and CEO are to separately call meetings of political parties and explain the schedule and seek cooperation expected of them before the date of draft publication. The draft publication should be done on the approved date and the copies of draft rolls should be handed over to recognized political parties in public meeting in the presence of press and media, the CEO said. In any case, proper acknowledgement receipts from the representatives of political parties must be obtained and kept in record.
CEO requested the recognized political parties to identify and appoint Booth Level Agent (BLA) for each polling station who will be associated with the Special Campaign for Roll Revision process on special campaign dates along with BLO. On these Special Campaign dates, the BLOs will go through the draft electoral roll with BLAs of recognized political parties of State concerned and identify the corrections, etc.
Additional CEO, N. Moa Aier mentioned that in order to facilitate the stakeholders and bring more transparency in the process of electoral registration, the practice of computerization and posting of all application forms received in Forms 6, 6A, 7,8 and 8A on the website of the CEO on a day to day basis will continue. With a view to ensure more involvement of political parties, the Commission has allowed BLAs of recognized political party to file applications in bulk, subject to the condition that a BLA shall not submit more than 10 Forms to BLO at one time/in one day, it added. If a BLA files more than 30 applications/forms during entire period of filing claims and objections, then the cross verification must be done by ERO/AERO themselves.
List of all claims and objections received are put up on the website of CEO so that any citizen may be able to see the list and lodge objections with the concerned ERO.
Meanwhile, all deletions on the ground of death are to be made only after ascertaining the fact of death to the satisfaction of ERO. Cases of deletions must be cross verified personally by Electoral Registration Officer.
Preparation of Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) for the first-time young electors may be done latest by January 20, 2018 and handed over to BLO/ERO/DEO etc. by January 22, 2018 for ceremonial distribution on January 25, 2018, National Voters' Day.
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