ECI chief to visit capital on Oct 28
Bhopal: Chief Election Commissioner of India VS Sampath, Deputy Election Commissioner Sudhir Tripathi, Director General PK Dash and Director General Akshay Raut will arrive here on October 28. Sampat and other officers will hold a meeting with representatives of recognised political parties at Hotel Jehan Numa Palace from 5 to 6.30 pm. The Central poll panel will also review election preparations at a meeting with district officials including civil and police at Narmada Bhavan on October 29 from 9 am to 1.30 pm. From 2.30 to 3 pm, the panel will hold another meeting with Additional Chief Secretary-Finance, Principal Secretary Institutional Finance, Chief Income Tax Commissioner and Director General IT. Information pertaining to election preparations will be sought at a meeting with the Chief Secretary, Principal Secretary Home and DGP from 3 to 3.30 pm. After press briefing from 4 to 4.30 pm, the Chief Election Commissioner and other officers will leave for Delhi.
57,533 duplicate names removed
Bhopal: With the process to include names and rectification of electoral rolls is going on in full swing as many as 57,533 duplicate names of voters have been removed from electoral rolls so far. Thus, cent percent repeated names have been removed. Similarly, 100 per cent work to include photographs of voters in electoral rolls has been accomplished. Now, there is no voter left whose photograph is not in electoral rolls. Electoral rolls are being rectified by the office of the CEO through software and booth level officers. Names of about one crore voters have been included in electoral rolls during last two years. Other kinds of errors have also been removed from electoral rolls. Since July 25 last, names of 31093 have been included in the electoral rolls. It is noteworthy that total number of voters in the State is 4.65 crore. Of these, 2.45 crore are males and 2.19 crore females. Besides, number of other voters is 987, service voters 20,000 and NRI voters 6. Voters can apply to get their names included in electoral rolls till October 29.
Compensation for elections duty announced
Bhopal: In a letter, the Election Commission of India has directed Chief Electoral Officers of all States regarding payment of ex gratia to polling staff during elections. As per guidelines, if an officer/employee dies casually in elections, next of his or her kin will be provided `5 lakh ex-gratia. If the death is caused due to any violent act of extremists or anti-social elements like riot, road mines, bomb blast, armed attack etc, the amount of compensation will be doubled to `10 lakh. If an officer/employee is suffers permanent disability, compensation worth `2.50 lakh will be paid. The amount will be doubled to `5 lakh if such mishap would have been caused by extremist or unsocial elements. The Commission has directed the State Governments to frame a uniform policy regarding the payment of ex-gratia to polling staff during elections. The guidelines framed by them should be sent to the commission by October 25.