Ahead of the Assembly elections later this year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday directed the Haryana Government to transfer all officers connected directly with elections if they have completed three years in present posting or in home district, Shrikant Walgad, Chief Electoral Officer, Haryana, was in a video conference with deputy commissioners and returning officers of all districts, on Tuesday. Those appointed sector officers will not be covered under these instructions.
Walgad said that the instructions covered not only officers appointed for specific election duties like district election officers, deputy district election officers, returning officers and assistant returning officers but also other district officers like additional district magistrates, deputy collectors, sub-divisional magistrates, tehsildars, block development officers or any other officer proposed to be deployed for election work.
A special campaign would be run for making youth and women aware of getting themselves registered and cast their vote so that maximum numbers of people participate in the elections. Under this campaign, meetings of deputy commissioners of districts would be organised with principals of educational institutes. The CEO said the final voters’ list would be prepared by the end of this month and all such people completing 18 years of age on January 1, 2014 and who have not get themselves registered, could get themselves registered.