A meeting of departments’ nodal officers, to include names in electoral rolls as on January 1, 2016, was held at CEO office here on Thursday. Joint Chief Electoral Officer SS Bansal was also present.
Bansal said that all nodal officers should conduct activities to get included names of remaining voters of their respective departments in electoral rolls. Names of remaining officers and employees should also be included. All Government offices and institutions should stock prints of form-6 and make them available to people on demand. Information about availability of form-6 should also be displayed at office building. He directed to include names of students taking admission in colleges of Higher Education department in electoral rolls. Similarly, copies of form-6 should also be made available to people visiting RTO for driving licence and banks for opening account.
Nodal Officers of Cooperatives, Higher and Technical Education, Culture, Public Relations, Excise and other departments, lead bank, BSNl, Nehru Yuvak Kendra etc. attended the meeting.
Notably, a programme is underway to include in electoral rolls names of male/ female voters attaining age of 18 years as on January 1, 2016. Eligibility to get names included in electoral rolls will begin from November 2 and applications in this regard will be accepted from this date.
Booth level Officers will be present at 62,690 polling booths in the state during office hours for issue form-6 to get names included, form-7 for deletion of names, form-8 for correction in Voter ID and form-002 to replace card in case of missing or getting damaged.