Urban body elections in the State will be held through photo-bearing electoral rolls for the first time. Work to prepare photo-bearing electoral roll will commence in two phases from June 16 with the appointment of registration/assistant registration officers.
The final electoral rolls will be published on October 20, 2014 and completed with their delivery to political parties through vendors. Photo-bearing electoral rolls will be prepared ward-wise on the pattern of polling booth-wise electoral rolls of the Election Commission of India with reference date of January 1, 2014. The State Election Commission has announced programme for preparing photo-bearing electoral rolls.
In the first phase, appointment of registration/assistant registration officers will be made on June 16.
Selection of employees for preparing preliminary electoral rolls and their training will be done on June 21. Process of obtaining Election Commission's electoral rolls revised upto January 1, 2014 will be undertaken on July 3. The Vidhan Sabha-wise electoral rolls will be separated local body-wise and handed over to registration officers on July 4. Work of preparation of draft of electoral rolls on the basis of current delimitation will be done by registration/assistant registration officers on July 9. Printed drafts of electoral rolls will be made available to vendors on July 19.
Vendors will shift voters to the electoral rolls through software on July 28. Vendors will provide checklists of ward-wise electoral rolls to registration officers on August 2. Registration/assistant registration officers will get errors in the electoral rolls corrected by vendors, sign them after this process and hand them over to vendors on August 11. Vendors will get printed draft electoral rolls for publication and provide them to the election office on August 19. In the second phase on August 20, electoral rolls will be made available to political parties as per requirement. Public notice regarding draft electoral rolls will be published and objections and claims received on August 29. September 15 is the last dates for receiving claims and objections, which will be finally disposed of onSeptember 22. After their disposal, documents pertaining to shifting, amendment and deletion and Forms (A, B, C and D) will be handed over to vendors for data entry on September 24.
Process to examine checklists received from vendors and get them rectified through vendors after signature will be done on October 1. The electoral rolls will be finally published and handed over to political parties through vendors on October 20.The State Election Commission has issued necessary directives to all Collectors and district election officers (local elections) to get photo-bearing electoral rolls prepared.
It is noteworthy that photo-bearing electoral rolls will be used for the first time in next urban body elections in the state. The Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation has been appointed state-level agency for getting prepared photo-bearing electoral rolls. Ward-wise electoral rolls will be prepared on the basis of polling booth-wise electoral rolls of Election Commission of India.