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Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer Kavita S. Mannikeri connected Friday (June 5) said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is nether mode successful Vijayanagara territory successful accordance with the directions of the Election Commission of India, with preparatory activities presently successful progress.
Addressing a property league astatine the Deputy Commissioner’s office, Ms. Mannikeri said voters person until June 16 for inclusion, deletion and progeny mapping of names successful the electoral rolls. The portal would thereafter beryllium frozen and nary modifications would beryllium permitted until work of the draught electoral roll.
She said grooming of Booth Level Officers (BLOs), preparatory enactment and printing of forms would beryllium carried retired from June 20 to 29. Subsequently, BLOs would undertake a house-to-house verification thrust from June 30 to July 29, during which they would sojourn each household 3 times, supply enumeration forms and get signatures from voters.
The draught electoral rotation volition beryllium published connected August 5. Claims and objections tin beryllium filed betwixt August 5 and September 4, portion the last electoral rotation volition beryllium published by the Election Commission connected October 7, she said.
Explaining the documentation requirements nether the SIR process, Ms. Mannikeri said voters whose names already fig successful the electoral rotation and who were calved earlier July 1, 1987, would beryllium required to furnish immoderate 1 of the 12 approved documents establishing their day and spot of birth.
Those calved betwixt July 1, 1987, and December 2, 2004, indispensable supply impervious of their ain day and spot of commencement on with documents establishing the day and spot of commencement of either parent. Persons calved aft December 2, 2004, volition person to taxable impervious of their ain day and spot of commencement arsenic good arsenic supporting documents relating to some parents. In cases wherever either genitor is not an Indian citizen, valid passport and visa documents of the genitor astatine the clip of commencement indispensable beryllium produced. Individuals calved extracurricular India oregon those who acquired citizenship done naturalisation indispensable furnish the applicable registration documents issued by Indian missions overseas oregon citizenship certificates, she said.
The Deputy Commissioner said the Election Commission had enabled online elector registration, eliminating the request for eligible citizens and first-time voters who person attained 18 years of property to taxable carnal applications. Applicants whitethorn interaction the BLO acrophobic done details disposable connected the Election Commission website and implicit the process online. Facilities for corrections and insignificant modifications person besides been provided.
To assistance the public, Voter Facilitation Centres volition beryllium opened astatine Village Administrative Officer offices, section bodies, tahsildar offices and Nada Kacheris. These centres volition assistance citizens who deficiency net entree oregon machine literacy to implicit the registration and revision process.
The territory presently has 1,234 polling stations crossed its 5 Assembly constituencies and an electorate of 11,42,861 people, comprising 5,65,999 antheral voters, 5,76,735 pistillate voters and 127 voters successful the 3rd sex category.
The Deputy Commissioner said meetings had already been held with representatives of governmental parties and they had been advised to name Booth Level Agents (BLAs) to assistance BLOs and guarantee transparency successful the revision process.
Clarifying misconceptions, she said the SIR workout was not intended to region names from the electoral rolls. Citizens should cooperate with BLOs during location visits and supply the required information. If immoderate eligible voter’s sanction is omitted, it tin beryllium included upon submission of supporting documents specified arsenic commencement certificates, ration cards oregon MGNREGA cards. Aadhaar, she added, would beryllium treated lone arsenic a impervious of individuality and not arsenic impervious of residence.
Public objections relating to electoral rolls would beryllium examined and resolved astatine the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) level done a quasi-judicial process. Ms. Mannikeri urged citizens not to beryllium misled by rumours and to marque afloat usage of the peculiar revision exercise.
