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Final voters list to be ready by March 20 in Karnataka

Bangalore: The final revised voters’ list for the newly drawn up constituencies as per the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission will be ready by March 20, according to M.N. Vidyashankar, Officer on Special Duty, State Election Commission, and Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT and Science & Technology.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting to announce new sponsors for the IT Department’s Computer Skills Proficiency Test (CSPT), Mr. Vidyashankar said that presently the final voters’ list for 20 districts, of the total 29 in the State, have already been prepared.

“It will not be possible to provide voters’ photo ID cards to all by May, or even by November,” Mr. Vidyashankar said, adding that the decision on the ID cards will be made in about three days. The application of IT tools will go a long way in the speedy processing of electoral rolls, he added.

CSPT, an initiative of the Department of IT BT and ST launched in October 2007 to help placement of non-engineering graduates in the industry will get considerably cheaper for the first 10,000 people who take the test in March, said Mr. Vidyashankar. From the estimated Rs. 600 that would have been charged for every test, the amount will now be reduced to Rs. 50, with the entry of two sponsors of the programme — Intel and AMD.

More corporate sponsors are now being sought to subsidise the test for the targeted 1 lakh candidates who are expected to sit for the test by year end, he added.

CSPT, with a focus on tier-II and tier-III cities and towns, aims at creating a State-wide standard for computer skills, and offers a government-endorsed certificate along with a score card to indicate the level of skill and employability of the candidate.

Madan Padaki, co-founder and CEO Meritrac Services, the partner of the IT Department in this initiative, said that as computer skills were now the “lowest common denominator” of the requirements in the emerging economy, such an initiative was timely.

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