Chief Electoral Officer Jaideep Govind chaired a meeting held with office-bearers of various recognised political parties here on Thursday.
Govind expressed gratitude to political parties for their cooperation in effective conduct of electoral works. Political parties' office-bearers also congratulated Election Commission of India, State's Chief Electoral Officer and district election officers for ensuring free and fair elections.
It was informed at the meeting that drafts of photo-bearing electoral rolls will be published on December 16 throughout the State. Registration officers will upload on website lists of forms 6, 7 and 8 received from the voters. They will also provide copies of these lists to political parties so that they can put forth their views regarding it.
Registration officers will register addresses of new habitats/colonies under various polling booths correctly so that their entries can be made in photo bearing electoral rolls. Directives were given to pay more attention that there are no errors in names, addresses etc. It was informed at the meeting that transfers of officers and employees connected with electoral rolls and booth level officers will be banned from December 16 to January 21.
To ensure error-free lists, 2 per cent of names removed from electoral rolls due to justified reason will be verified by deputy district election officer, one per cent by district election commissioner and half percent by divisional commissioner. People whose names are removed from electoral rolls except dead persons will be given opportunity of hearing. Verification of names removed from electoral rolls will be done by registration officer. Divisional commissioners have been appointed Roll Observers for this.
It was informed at the meeting that names of those will also be included in electoral rolls who attain age of 18 years as on January 1, 2014. Office-bearers of political parties have been expected to inform their booth level officers about this so that they can obtain forms from such new voters. He informed that final electoral rolls will be published on January 21. Meanwhile, Registration Officers will hear claims and objections and dispose them. Political parties have been expected to appoint booth level officers at the earliest to work with BlOs.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vl Kanta Rao, Joint Chief Electoral Officer SS Bansal and office-bearers of Indian National Congress, BJP, BSP, CPI (M) and NCP attended the meeting.