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A Parliamentary Standing Committee has asked the Election Commission to guarantee that nary genuine elector is excluded from the voters’ lists oregon subjected to undue hardship during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), which has concluded successful galore States and volition statesman successful others soon.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice successful its study tabled successful Parliament this week, has said that the revision of electoral rolls should beryllium carried retired successful a fair, transparent and inclusive manner. It has sought capable safeguards for susceptible sections, including elder citizens, persons with disabilities, economically weaker sections, and migrant populations.
The committee’s recommendations travel adjacent arsenic governmental parties successful galore States specified arsenic West Bengal person raised questions astir the full process and made allegations that the names of galore genuine voters were deleted. While the SIR process has been completed successful 11 States and Union Territories, the EC has asked 22 different States to statesman preparations for the exercise.
The last electoral database of Uttar Pradesh is scheduled to beryllium retired successful April. In West Bengal, names of astir 60.06 lakh voters, whose details had “logical discrepancies”, are nether adjudication by judicial officers. Those names cleared by the officers volition beryllium added to the voters’ database by mode of a supplementary list.
Monitoring mechanism
The study submitted successful Parliament connected March 16 said: “The committee takes enactment of the projected house-to-house verification by booth-level officers and the uploading of applicable documents connected ECINET (Election Commission Integrated Network) with restricted access, arsenic good arsenic the engagement of governmental parties done booth-level agents”.
It therefore, recommends that the Election Commission of India enactment successful spot robust monitoring mechanisms astatine each levels to guarantee azygous implementation of the revision process, portion besides ensuring strict adherence to information privateness and information protocols successful respect of documents uploaded connected ECINET.
“These measures, successful the presumption of the committee, would assistance heighten transparency and fortify nationalist assurance successful the integrity of the electoral rolls,” said the study by the multi-party panel, headed by elder BJP MP Brij Lal.
