To bring an error-free and authenticated electoral roll, Haryana Election Commission will launch a comprehensive programme ‘National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) in the State on March 3.
Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Shrikant Walgad on Monday said that the objectives of NERPAP are linking and authentication of EPIC data of electors with Aadhar data of UIDAI only, voluntary disclosure by the electors concerned of multiple entries pertaining to them and disposal of such cases within 15 days by the concerned Electoral Registration Officers ( EROs) under intimation to the concerned electors.
“Besides, it also aims at corrections of errors or any relevant entry pertaining to electors within 15 days on production of cogent documentary evidence, improvement of image quality, wherever requested, by following due procedure, obtaining and feeding in the ER database the mobile and email address of the electors so that periodic information of poll day, revision schedule, deletion and correction notice etc and other facilitation services could be provided to them,” he said.
Walgad said, “The Commission gives highest priority to the maintenance of electoral roll without any defects, errors and multiple entries. The programme would be carried out taking into consideration the summary revision of electoral rolls with respect to January 1, 2015.”
He said that for the launching of NERPAP, the Commission would issue circulars to district electoral officers and hold video conference to brief DEOs and EROs about NERPAP programme.
“Besides, state call centre with toll free number 1950 would be made functional immediately and proper records of the calls received would be maintained for audit and scrutiny,” he added.