Announcing schedule for summery revision of electoral rolls in Punjab, the Election Commission of India has asked the State to accomplish the task up to January 1, 2015.
“The process of summary revision has been initiated with a view to prepare accurate roll inclusive of all eligible persons as electoral,” said a spokesperson of Punjab Chief Electoral Office.
He said that in the process, names of dead, or shifted or otherwise disqualified electoral are required to be deleted and particulars of electoral corrected and updated. He said that in this massive activity, entire election machinery starting with CEOs, DEOs, EROs, AEROs and ending with BlO supervisors and BlOs would take part.
Spokesperson said that ECI has issued direction for the state government not to transfer any officials connected with the exercise of revision of electoral rolls like district education officers, deputy district election officers, electoral registration officers and assistant electoral registration officers etc, from their places of posting without the prior concurrence of the Election Commission.
Commission has also restricted the deployment of such officials with the work relating to or connected with the revision of electoral rolls against whom the ECI has recommended disciplinary action, against whom criminal case is pending and such officials who were transferred out during any previous revision of rolls or conduct of election inefficiency or willfully violating the ECI directions.