Shimla, the Capital of poll-bound Himachal Pradesh has added more than 16, 000 new voters for the upcoming Assembly elections.
Deputy Commissioner Rohan Chand Thakur on Friday said that 16,211 new voters had been added in the electoral lists of the eight Assembly segments in Shimla district.
Thakur said that as many as 5,23,847 voters have been registered in Shimla and the number consists of 2,75,572 male and 2,57,423 female voters. Around 16,211 voters would use their electoral franchise for the first time on Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), he said.
Thakur said that in the scrutiny of voter list, names of 7,013 voters have been deleted in the district on account of death, shifting of place or dual registration in merged voter lists. The district has recorded a gain of around 9,198 in the number of voters in the district.
The final lists prepared by the district administration were available for public inspection at concerned Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) cum SDM, Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) cum Tehsildar or NaibTehsildar at their respective offices and booth level officials (BRO).
He said that the updation of electoral rolls is still open in all the assembly segments of the district and voter lists could be verified by the voters and general public in the Election Department and 1027 polling station from September 16 to 30.
He said that the concerned booth level officers would launch door to door campaign to verify the voters to give final touch to the lists.
The fresh voters who have attained 18 years till January 1, 2017 if not figured in the published draft of electoral lists could also fill the form number six and submit it to BlOs, EROs and AEROs. Enrollment could be done online also, added he.