Election Commission of India has extended the special revision of electoral roll with Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) programme to November 18 in Chhattisgarh.
The final publication will be on January 20. Those youth who will attain 18 years of age on January 1, 2020 will also be eligible. Earlier, as per programme the date was October 15, 2019.
Chief Electoral Officer, Chhattisgarh Subrat Sahoo, while informing about the revised programme, said the primary publication of the integrated electoral roll will be done on November 25, 2019 after which the electors can make the claims and objections till December 24, 2019. The claims and objections thus received will be resolved by January 10, 2020 and the supplementary electoral roll will be prepared by January 17, 2020. The final publication of electoral roll will be done on January 20, 2020.
Sahoo in a directive to all the district electoral officers cum collectors have urged them to implement the programme of Election Commission as per the announced schedules.