SIR timeline for Karnataka, training workshop for officers in Belagavi

Deputy Commissioner Mohammed Roshan inaugurated a divisional-level grooming store for each authorities officers assigned for Systematic Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India, successful the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha successful Belagavi, connected May 19.

Participants included Additional Deputy Commissioners, Elector Registration Officers, Assistant Elector Registration Officers, tahsildars and method unit of the Belagavi division.

The DC asked them to travel the ECI’s directions successful the SIR workout and transportation retired the process arsenic per the rules. He said that each efforts should beryllium taken to spot that nary idiosyncratic is deprived of the close to vote. “Voting is simply a antiauthoritarian close of each citizen. We should each enactment to marque it universally disposable to everyone without difficulty. All elector registration officers and adjunct elector registration officers should execute their duties without fail,” Mr. Roshan said.

He said the process of mapping names of electors successful Belagavi northbound and southbound constituencies had been astir completed. However, immoderate persons person been near retired arsenic they are yet to participate. Therefore, the process of including the persons who person been near retired successful the elector lists should beryllium carried retired instantly done door-to-door surveys.

V. Raghavendra, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, said that revision of voters’ database should beryllium carried retired flawlessly arsenic per ECI guidelines. He said that enactment should beryllium taken to see eligible voters successful the electoral rolls, and to region ineligible voters. He asked the officers to cheque and instrumentality enactment connected absentee and migrant voters.

“All the authorities should enactment successful co-ordination to successfully instrumentality the broad revision of the elector list. There are galore examples of enactment taken against officers who violated predetermination rules. Therefore, everyone should execute their predetermination duties with vigilance.”

Resource persons gave elaborate accusation connected assorted issues, including the process of revising the electoral rolls, registration of caller voters, correction of names, alteration of address, method of removing names of deceased and fake voters, usage of online services. They besides answered questions raised by the trainees.

Mr. Raghavendra said that elector registration officers had to transportation retired respective duties, including ensuring that polling presumption level officers and supervisors are appointed for each polling stations, clasp a gathering of the leaders of recognised nationalist and State governmental parties for each polling station, and instrumentality enactment to name booth level agents, and pass them of the dates of revision, put grooming for polling presumption level officers and supervisors for each polling stations,

During peculiar broad revision, details shall beryllium fixed regarding organisation of pre-printed enumeration forms, work of draught voters list, and hearing, according to Deputy Commissioner Mr. Mohammed Roshan.