Dimapur, December 16 (MExN): The Nagaland Board of School Education has informed that the Election Commission of India has issued instructions to maximise the enrolment of young/prospective electors from the campuses through active participation of educational institutions.
According to a press release issued through the DIPR, the registration of new/prospective electors has always been a challenging task, and in spite of the ECI’s consistent efforts for encouraging and increasing enrolment in the 18-19 age group, there has always been a shortfall in the registration number.
Earlier, the registration in electoral roll was done with respect to one qualifying date. However, with the recent change in the registration process, provision of four qualifying dates has been introduced. This has enabled more prospective electors to submit advance applications/claims for registration in Form-6, upon the draft publication of the electoral roll, usually done in November every year.
As the majority of such prospective electors are part of the educational institutes, the Commission feels that registration of young/prospective electors can be maximised through active participation of institutions by providing a dedicated space on institution's websites where a link for “registration of new voters” along with awareness slogans may be given, it said.
This would to encourage the students to registration as electors, it stated.
A field embedded towards the end of the registration/examination form with the tagline “application form to be a new voter,” and a click on the same would direct the applicant to Form-6 “Registration of New Voter” on the NVSP portal, by hyperlinking the tagline with the portal.
All the Heads of Institutions have been requested to take note and facilitate prospective students to register in the electoral roll, it added.
