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More than 1.60 lakh voters were added to the electoral rolls successful Jammu and Kashmir during the caller peculiar summary revision (SSR). At the aforesaid time, 67,690 names were deleted, and 2.29 lakh corrections carried out, according to authoritative data.
Jammu territory recorded the highest fig of deletions, which included “duplicate” and “shifted” entries, successful the yearly elector database revision. The peculiar summary revision is abstracted from the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) carried retired successful immoderate states.
According to the district-wise breakup of the existent elector enrolment, Jammu territory has the highest fig of electors astatine 11,89,555, followed by Srinagar with 7,53,222 and Baramulla with 7,20,500 voters.
Among the districts, Srinagar registered the highest fig of additions with 30,077, followed by Jammu with 16,855 and Baramulla with 11,854.
Jammu recorded the astir deletions astatine 10,430, followed by Budgam with 7,762 and Anantnag with 5,241, it said.
The information reveals that a full of 1,60,974 additions, 67,690 deletions, and 2,29,920 corrections were recorded crossed the Union Territory during the revision exercise.
Of these, 10,639 duplicate elector entries and 34,675 shifted entries were detected and deleted crossed the Union Territory, the information revealed.
Jammu territory reported the highest fig of shifted entries astatine 6,840, followed by Rajouri with 4,791 and Anantnag with 3,745.
Overall, the full electorate successful Jammu and Kashmir stands astatine 87,42,878, including 44,65,161 antheral voters, 42,77,568 pistillate voters, and 149 3rd sex voters, it added.
Officials said respective steps are being taken to execute 100% elector enrolment, peculiarly among under-registered groups.
These see the peculiar summary revision conducted nether the Representation of the People Act, which present allows 4 qualifying dates successful a twelvemonth — January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 — for elector registration.
In addition, the Systematic Voters’ Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme is being implemented to beforehand elector awareness, acquisition and information successful the electoral process crossed the Union Territory, they said.
The predetermination authorities successful Jammu and Kashmir person precocious conducted elector consciousness initiatives nether the SVEEP programme to summation elector registration and participation, peculiarly among youth, women and marginalised communities, officials said.
Officials said the programme focuses connected promoting informed, ethical voting practices and raising consciousness of the electoral process. Since its instauration successful 2009, SVEEP has played a cardinal relation successful encouraging citizens to enactment actively successful antiauthoritarian processes, they said.
At the main electoral bureau level, respective consciousness activities person been undertaken during the SSR of electoral rolls, they added. “These see accumulation of abbreviated videos, documentaries and slogans successful section languages, dissemination of SMS alerts successful English, Hindi and Urdu to subscribers of telecom networks... regarding elector registration, and work of advertisements successful starring newspapers crossed Jammu and Kashmir,” they said.
Authorities person besides broadcast audio spots connected backstage vigor channels, displayed scroll messages connected cablegram tv networks, and installed hoardings and posters astatine salient locations to rise consciousness of the elector enrolment process, they said. “In addition, scroll messages person been aired done Doordarshan stations successful Jammu and Srinagar.” At the territory level, territory predetermination officers person launched aggregate outreach initiatives. These see door-to-door visits by booth-level officers (BLOs) and supervisors to place and assistance eligible voters successful registration, they said.
Electoral literacy clubs person besides been activated successful schools and colleges to amended aboriginal voters astir the electoral process. Polling stations person hosted “Chunav Pathshalas” to supply hands-on learning astir voting procedures, they said.
