Every possible effort is being made to increase polling percentage during Vidhan Sabha elections to be held in Madhya Pradesh in the end of current year.
On the initiative of State Chief Electoral Office, 10,000 common service centres have been set up in the State for getting names included in electoral rolls, corrections in voters ID cards etc.
Now, these facilities will also be available at these centres apart from voters’ facilitation centres. These 10 thousand service centres are being run through MP Online kiosks. Voters have been urged to avail these facilities at their nearest service centre.
Services including issuance of voter’s ID card, getting names included in electoral rolls, correction in EPIC cards, removal of name from voter list and issuance of duplicate EPIC cards are being provided at these centres.
A voter will have to pay only Rs. 15 for availing services at these centres. this amount will be payable for online entries and uploading documents after scanning them.
It is noteworthy that earlier, voters’ facilitation centres have been set up in all 230 Vidhan Sabha constituencies on the directives of the Election Commission.
The state-level voters’ facilitation centre has been established at Chief Electoral Office, Bhopal.