Kohima, May 31 (MExN): The Election Commission of India in tune with the theme 'No voters to be left behind' will launch a nationwide comprehensive Special Drive from July 1 to 31. The month of June 2017 will be used for preparatory works.
A press release from Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland, N Moa Aier informed that activities of Special Drive will include enrolment of eligible young Indian citizens particularly in 18-19 age group and removal of names of dead electors, multiple names, transferred out names and underage which are still continuing in the electoral rolls.
Data on registered deaths will be collected from the Registrar of Deaths and all registered death entries shall be removed during the Special Drive. Publicity and related issues such as campaign to motivate the electors to get their names registered and participate in the electoral process for stronger democracy will be organized during this period.
Special Campaigns will be held on July 8 and 22 in all polling stations, where Booth Level Officer will sit with adequate number of inclusion forms. On the day of camp, entire final Electoral Roll 2017 will be made available in the polling stations so that citizens can check their names in the existing rolls. The left out eligible citizens can fill the inclusion forms and give the same to the Booth Level Officer at polling station itself.
It was further informed that BLOs will visit door to door in the area falling under their jurisdiction for collection of Form-6 from the applicants, particularly in 18-19 age group (extendable to 21 years of age) from the period between July 1 and 31. Forms may also be sent online through NVSP Portal of ECI (eci.nic.in). All stakeholders such as political parties, NGOs, churches, media etc have been requested to extend cooperation/ participation for maximization of registration of eligible electors and removing the “impurities” in the rolls.
