The Block Level Officer (BLO) will visit from home to home to improve the Electoral Population (EP) ratio and add to the voters aged 18-19 years in the electoral list. In view of the parliamentary election scheduled to be conducted next year, the district electoral office has started its preparations to finalise the electoral list.
Reviewing the revision work of the electoral list on Monday at the auditorium in the office of divisional commissioner here, the District Magistrate and District Electoral Officer (DM/DEO) S Rajalingam directed the Electoral Returning Officers (EROs) and Assistant EROs to focus on adding to the new voters aged 18-19 years in the electoral lists and also improve the EP ratio. This work should be completed at the earliest.
The BLO should visit from home to home and pay special attention on Form No-6&7, the DM directed, adding that the BLO should pay attention to improve the EP ratio and also add to the new voters in the voters’ lists.
The DM directed the EROs and AEROs to discharge the duty of adding to the names of new voters aged 18-19 years in the voter’s lists and deleting the replicate or displaced voters from the lists.
The EP ratio should be from 60 to 65 per cent but when he asked the AERO of the assembly constituencies about this, the EP ratio of maximum was found more than 70 per cent and the District Magistrate took a serious note of it and asked the Additional District Magistrate -E/Dy DEO to withhold their one day salary and seek clarification from them.