Chief Electoral Officer Jaideep Govind has directed all districts to accelerate the pace of summary revision of electoral rolls. Govind was reviewing progress of Summary Revision Programme-2015 here today. He directed to dispose of claims and objections soon.
According to Jaideep Govind, Election Commission of India has extended last date for accepting claims and objections to December 1. He said that though Summary Revision-2015 is progressing well in districts, but it has been found during review that this work is lagging in some Vidhan Sabha constituencies. Govind asked Elector Registration Officers to fill the gap in the work by deploying BlOs, supervisors and employees of partner departments. He also directed to provide forms at Vidhan Sabha constituency level to vendors of state-level nodal agency.
The Chief Electoral Officer directed district election officers and CEOs of district Panchayats to undertake wide publicity to apprise common people of extension of last date for submitting claims and objections. Directions have been given to hand over claims-objections regarding youths attaining 18 years of age to booth level officers so that no eligible voter remains deprived of getting his name included in electoral rolls.
Meanwhile, State Election Commissioner R Parasuram has informed that electioneering for first phase will come to end at 5 pm on November 26 in 135 urban bodies where polling will be held on November 28 from 7 am. Polling for the second phase elections will be held on December 2.
In the first phase, 9 municipal corporations, 26 Nagar Palikas and 100 Nagar Parishads will go to poll. Polling will be held at 5573 booths in 2534 wards. Total number of voters in this phase is 44 lakh 3 thousand 785 including 23 lakh 22 thousand 255 males, 20 lakh 81 thousand 319 females and 211 others. So far, voter lists have been
distributed to over 85 percent voters. In Panna district, cent percent voter slips have been distributed. Counting of votes of the first phase will be held on December 4. The municipal corporations where elections will be held in the first phase include Gwalior, Sagar, Satna, Rewa, Singrauli, Khandwa, Burhanpur, Ratlam and Dewas.