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With elector mapping up of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls progressing astatine a slower gait successful Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) areas compared to respective different districts successful Karnataka, GBA Chief Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao said efforts would beryllium intensified to amended sum and asserted that the existent level of mapping would not impact the revision process.
Date of freezing
As per directions issued by the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, the E-Roll (digital mentation of the authoritative elector database utilized by the Election Commission of India) will beryllium frozen connected June 16. Pending Forms 6, 6A, 7 and 8 – utilized for caller voters, NRI voters, objections and upgradation, respectively – volition beryllium disposed of earlier the frost date, Mr. Rao said.
“Mapping is conscionable a procedure to marque the enactment casual and simplified for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and electors. Enumeration signifier volition beryllium fixed to each one, based connected which the process volition beryllium taken forward. Mapping percentage, successful nary way, volition impact the SIR exercise,” he said during a property league connected Thursday.
He said that enactment is nether mode to representation the 2025 electoral rotation and progeny with the 2002 electoral rotation arsenic portion of preparatory activities and each indispensable steps would beryllium taken to guarantee the inclusion of eligible voters.
Role of governmental parties
Political parties person been allowed to participate in the process by submitting up to 50 forms a time to the BLOs until work of the draught electoral roll. Following work of the draught roll, the governmental parties volition be permitted to submit not much than 10 forms a day, Mr. Rao said.
He clarified that lone authorities section and individuals associated with authorities would beryllium roped successful for immoderate benignant of enactment oregon coordination. The maximum enumerators, helium said, would beryllium roped successful from the Education department.
Stormwater drains rectified
Responding to concerns implicit roads damaged during the caller spell of rains despite the GBA’s preparedness measures, GBA Chief Commissioner M. Maheshwar Rao said astir of the large stormwater drains that had antecedently contributed to flooding had been rectified. As a result, the metropolis did not witness any large flooding incidents this time, helium said.
While acknowledging that immoderate issues did emerge following the rains, he maintained that these were confined to circumstantial localities alternatively than being citywide and added that mitigation works are continuing. “The GBA volition travel up with a program to code flooding successful susceptible areas,” helium added.
