Tamil Nadu - Tirunelveli   

Poll roll revision from October

— Photo: A. Shaikmohideen.

DISCUSSION: Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta holding a meeting with officials in Tirunelveli on Monday.

TIRUNELVELI: The annual summary revision of electoral rolls and its cent per cent field verification to ensure the preparation of error-free voters’ list with new eligible electorate will commence in the first week of October, Chief Electoral Officer Naresh Gupta has said.

Speaking to reporters here on Monday after holding a discussion with Collector M. Jayaraman and others, Mr. Naresh Gupta said the booth-level officers, executing the field verification with a checklist, would concentrate on including the missing names in the electoral rolls, making appropriate corrections in the spelling of names, address, age etc.

Stickers would be pasted on the houses verified by the booth-level officers.

“Since the Election Commission of India has prescribed different types for application forms for different uses like inclusion / deletion of names and correction of information provided in the voters’ list, the applicants should submit appropriate claims.

After the names were included in the electoral rolls following field verification, the voters’ names will be included in the voters’ list, which will automatically make the voters eligible to get their Electors’ Photo Identity Cards,” Mr. Naresh Gupta said.

He said the voters, who moved from one place to the other, should also submit application afresh so that their names would be included in the voters’ list meant for the new block.

When asked about wrongful mass deletion of voters in some parts of the district from the electoral rolls, Mr. Gupta said the Collector would take appropriate steps for rectifying this problem.

After his discussion with the Chief Electoral Officer was over, Mr. Jayaraman said that every official associated with the revision of electoral rolls had been instructed to complete the field verification with utmost accuracy.

Corporation Commissioner K. Baskaran and District Revenue Officer P. Ramanasaraswathi also participated in the meeting with Mr. Gupta.

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