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The Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Monday (January 12, 2025) issued a clarification connected the announcement issued arsenic portion of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) successful Goa to former Navy main Admiral Arun Prakash (retd.), stating that his enumeration signifier did not incorporate mandatory particulars related to the erstwhile SIR.
The ECI had asked Mr. Prakash, who has been settled successful Goa since his retirement, to be a gathering to found his individuality arsenic portion of the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls. Several netizens, including those who retired from the equipped forces, had expressed interest astir specified a announcement to Mr. Prakash, a Vir Chakra awardee for his relation successful the India-Pakistan War of 1971.
In a clarification issued connected Monday (January 12), Electoral Registration Officer Dr. Medora Ermomilla D'Costa said, "In the discourse of media reports relating to notices issued during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), it is clarified that during the people of SIR, the Booth Level Officer (BLO) of Part No. 43 of Cortalim Assembly Constituency collected the enumeration signifier pertaining to Shri Arun Prakash."
"It was observed that the said enumeration signifier did not incorporate the mandatory particulars relating to the erstwhile SIR, including the sanction of the elector, EPIC number, sanction of the relative, sanction and fig of the Assembly Constituency, Part number, and serial fig successful the electoral roll," Mr. D'Costa added.
In the lack of these indispensable recognition details, the BLO Application was incapable to found an automatic linkage betwixt the submitted enumeration signifier and the existing electoral rotation database, the authoritative pointed out.
Ex-Navy Chief Arun Prakash asked to beryllium individuality nether SIR
“As each the fields pertaining to the past SIR were near blank, the strategy categorised the enumeration signifier nether the 'unmapped' category," the clarification mentioned.
"The BLO exertion is designed to automatically representation enumeration forms lone erstwhile the prescribed recognition particulars are duly filled in, enabling verification with the existing electoral roll. In cases wherever enumeration forms stay unmapped, the SIR process mandates further verification done a proceeding mechanism," Mr. D'Costa said.
Mr. D'Costa said, arsenic per the standard, system-driven procedure, a proceeding announcement was automatically generated and issued to alteration verification of the elector's details and guarantee owed accidental for confirmation of eligibility.
