Youngsters who attained 18 years of age or those who have complaints regarding mistakes in their names and other details in the existing voters’ list may have yet another opportunity either to get their names included or make correction of the mistakes as initial voters’ list for voting centres in all districts of State will be published on April 18, informed Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh.
All the applications related to revision, addition or deletion in the voters’ lists will be accepted by the in-charge officials of respective voting centre. The final voters’ list will be published on June 4, 2013, after the necessary modification and revision.
According to the Chief Electoral Officer, such persons, who are 18 years of age or above as on January 1, 2013 but their names have not appeared in the voter-lists for some or the other reason, they may submit an application with their passport-size photo so that their name can be included in the final voter-list and accordingly the voter-ID card can be issued.
Moreover, names of the voters, who are dead or have migrated to other place for some or the other reasons, will be deleted from the voter-list. Any kind of error in printing of name, surname, age, gender or other details of the voter, will also corrected. During this period, voters can view their names in the voter-lists put on display at the respective voting centres, or the lists uploaded on the official website www.ceochhattisgarh.nic.in. For further details in this context, one can also call on toll-free number 1950.
Collectors and District Election Officers of all the districts have been briefed about the special revision programme for voter-lists. According to Chief Electoral Officer, special revision programme for the voters lists as on January 1, 2013 is as follows: The work related to correction in control table and photo merging will be done between April 1-April 3, the preparation of supplementary list by merging of voter-lists and the eligibility date as on January 1, 2013 and printing of the same will be done from April 4 to April 17, after merging of both, the initial voter-list will be published on April 18, 2013, applications related to claims and objections will be received from April 18 to May 10, special campaign for claims and objections will be held on April 20, April 21, May 4, and May 5. The claims and objections received in the meantime will be redressed on May 23.
later, the database will be updated and the supplementary list will printed by June 1, 2013. Thereafter, the final voter-lists will be released on June 4.
The Chief Electoral Officer also said that the revised programme for publishing of voter-lists will be widely publicised and promoted, so that none of the eligible candidate remains deprived of the right to vote and thereby, error-free and accurate voters lists can be prepared as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India.