Election Commission of India has launched a new mobile app. for Electoral Rolls monitoring to ensure transparency in the process of ongoing summery revision of electoral rolls ahead of the assembly election in UP early next year. The new Mobile app. named as `Electoral Roll Monitoring system ( ERMS) could be downloaded from the website of the Chief electoral Officer of UP and it will provide all details about the addition and deletion of the names from the voters list. UP Chief electoral Officer T Vekentesh said here on Tuesdaythat the voters can check their names in the electoral rolls by uploading this app.. If they have applied for the inclusion of their name in the rolls they could check the status of their applications. Detailed information about each polling booth of the state can also be obtained from the app.
“The new App. will have detail about Form 6,7,8 and 8(A),. While form six is for addition, form 7 for deletion and form 8 and 8(A) is for transfer,” he said. Earlier there were dispute during the polling with voters complaining their names missing from the voters list. But now the voters can check their names in the list any time through this mobile app. However, Vekentesh said that as per the ECI directions, the voters whose names have been deleted would be informed personally so that they can know as to why their names have been deleted. They can also contest the decision if they so desire. During the ongoing summary revision of the electoral rolls, over 2.32 lakh persons have submitted form 6 for adding their names in the list of which 75,470 names have been approved and 62,852 have been included in the electoral rolls. Similarly in the form 7 for deleting the names from the rolls, over 1 lakh persons had applied but 20,539 have been approved so far. “We are double crossing the process for deletion of the names from the electoral rolls and all precautions are being taken,” Vekentesh said. The summary revision of the electoral rolls would continue till October 31 with special driver for four days this month. The publication of the final electoral rolls would be made on January 2, 2017.
Meanwhile, the CEO said that distribution of Election Photo Identity Cards(EPIC) have speed up with now 33 lakh EPICs were being distributed. “We have got two companies one of Chennai and another of Pune making these EPICs so now there would be no delay in distributing these cards,” he stated.