The State Election Commission (SEC) will publish the final draft of electoral rolls on October 18 for election of Urban local Bodies in November. On saturdaym the SEC reviewed the progress of preparation of electoral rolls in all districts through video conferencing.
SEC SK Agarwal said in lucknow on Saturday that Booth-level Officers (BlO) were conducting door-to-door survey for preparing the draft roll which will be completed by October 3. He said that online application for inclusion of names in electoral rolls will be accepted till September 25.
The draft of the roll will be published on October 9 and claims and objections will be accepted by the SEC till October 15. He said that after the disposal of claims and objections, the final roll will be published by October 18.
The SEC said that a detailed survey of electoral rolls was necessitated due to delimitation of wards and creation of new Urban local Bodies and upgradatgion of some municipal bodies as Municipal Corporation resulting in rural areas coming within municipal limits.
Agarwal said that all such voters will be weeded out from the rolls who are resident of rural areas but their names figure in the rolls for Urban local Bodies.
The SEC said that roll revision process is underway in 16 Muncipal Corporations, 198 Municipal Palika Parishad and 439 Nagar Panchyats. A BlO has been posted for each polling booth for the revision of rolls. The total number of polling booths in Urban local Bodies in UP is 36,339.
Agarwal said that it had come to the notice of his office that in few districts, BlOs wre yet to take up roll revision. He said that district magistrates have been directed to ensure that preparation of draft roll was completed by October 3.
The SEC said that the district magistrates have also been asked to ensure that duplicate and ineligible voters were weeded out from the electoral rolls.