As per the directions of the Election Commission of India, special summary revision of electoral rolls of all the 90 Assembly constituencies in Haryana will be done with reference to January 1, 2016 as the qualifying date.
Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Shrikant Walgad on Thursday said that the draft electoral rolls would be published on October 15. The period for filing of claims and objections would be from October 15 to November 13.
Shrikant said that in this revision campaign, October 25 and November 8 have been announced as special campaign days. On these days, Booth level Officers (BlOs) would be available on their respective booths.
In order to encourage youth towards revision of electoral rolls, various programmes and competitions like poster making, essay writing and declamation would be organized at block, tehsil, district and state level so that youth could make up their mind to ensure their participation in elections. Also, the concerned District Election Officers and Electoral Registration Officers would organize events like human chain, marathon race, rally etc in all major cities.
Reading of relevant part or section of Photo Electoral Rolls in Gram Sabha or local Bodies and RWA meeting etc and verification of names would be done on October 20 and 28 while special campaign dates for receiving claims and objections would be October 25 and November 8.
The disposal of claims and objections would take place by December 7 whereas updation of database would be done by December 24. Final publication of electoral rolls would take place on January 11, 2016.
He said that any person, whose name was not entered in the draft roll and was above 18 years of age on the qualifying date of January 1, 2016 and a citizen of India, was eligible for enrolment as a voter in the roll of the constituency. all the eligible electors whose names are not enrolled so far could submit their application in form-6 for new registration, in form 6 A for registration of non resident of India, form 7 for removal of name from electoral roll, form 8 for correction and form 8 A for shifting polling station to other polling station in same constituency.
These forms could be downloaded from website: www.ceoharyana.nic.in. Applicant could also apply online on this website.
He said that the prime objective of this revision is to prepare an accurate roll complete in all respects with the active cooperation and involvement of electors as well as political parties.
Walgad has urged all people especially youth and women to maximum benefit of this revision campaign and get their vote registered along with other relatives.