Dimapur, May 31 (EMN): Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has notified that the Election Commission of India (ECI) in tune with the theme ‘No voters to be left behind’ will be launching a nationwide comprehensive program called Special Drive w.e.f. July 1 to 31.
Chief Electoral Officer (O), N. Moa Aier informed that the month of June will be used for preparatory works. Activities of special drive will include enrolment of eligible young Indian citizens particularly in I 8-19 age group and removal of names of dead electors, multiple names, transferred out names and underage which are still continuing in the electoral rolls. Data on registered deaths shall be collected from the Registrar of Deaths and all registered death entries shall be removed during the special drive.
Publicity and related issues such as campaign to motivate the electors to get their names registered and participate in the electoral process for stronger democracy shall be organized during this period. Special campaign dates will be held from July 8 to 22. Camps shall be held in all polling stations where Booth Level Officer will sit with adequate number of inclusion forms.
On the day of camp, entire final Electoral Roll 2017 will be made available in the polling stations so that citizens can check their names in the existing rolls. The left out eligible citizens can fill the inclusion forms and give the same to the Booth Level Officer at polling station itself. BLO shall visit door to door in the area falling under his jurisdiction for collection of Form-6 from the applicants, particularly in 18-19 age group (extendable to 21 years of age) from the period between !st July 2017 and 31st July 2017. Forms may also be send online through NVSP Portal of EC! Website: eci.nic.in
All stakeholders such as political parties, NGOs, Churches, media etc. have been requested to extend cooperation and participation for maximization of registration of eligible electors and removing the impurities in the rolls.
