The Hindu : New Delhi News : Voters' identification gets a big boost

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Voters' identification gets a big boost

Staff Reporter

Citizens would be able to get various services round-the-year under one roof

NEW DELHI: India's first Voter Registration and Electors' Photo Identity Cards Centre (VREC) providing round-the-year services to citizens for election-related activities at one place in an accessible and convenient manner will be opened in the Seemapuri Assembly constituency here on Wednesday.

Announcing this on Tuesday, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Satbir Silas Bedi said the first VREC would be commissioned at the office of the District Election Officer in Nand Nagri. In the coming months, more VRECs would be commissioned in other Assembly constituencies, she added. Already work is in progress in all the Assembly constituencies of Delhi for introduction of VRECs.

At these centres, citizens would be able to get various services under one roof. These would include inclusion of names in the electoral roll; objection to or deletion of the existing entry in the electoral roll; correction of the existing incorrect entry in the electoral roll and transposition of entry from one polling station area to another polling station area in the same electoral roll.

The other services at the VRECs will include preparation and issue of electors' photo identity card (EPIC); preparation and issue of duplicate EPIC; issue of certificate of entry in the electoral rolls; and inspection of entries in the electoral rolls.

Dr. Bedi said each VREC would be equipped with all the information and infrastructure required including electoral rolls, forms, touch screens and EPIC preparation facilities.

She said the VREC would also be the coordination point for booth level officers (BLOs) in the Assembly constituency and for this purpose these officers are being appointed for each of the 9,246 polling booths in Delhi.

She said with these BLOs in all the 70 Assembly constituencies in the Capital, preparation of a clean and truly representative photo electoral roll before the next Assembly elections in November 2008 will also become easy. The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer informed that during the recently concluded annual revision exercise -- with January 1, 2007, as the qualifying date -- as many as 5.7 lakh applications were received from citizens of Delhi for inclusion, deletion, modification or transposition of names during the 20-day period of receiving claims and objections that began on October 6, 2006.

The number of additions made on the basis of these applications was 4.39 lakhs, whereas the number of deletions on the basis of applications and field verifications was 2.58 lakhs.

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