With Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and voter list with photograph to be used for the first time in the urban body polls across Chhattisgarh, the districts of insurgency-hit Bastar division have already commenced preparations for the forthcoming elections.
In Sukma, District Collector SR Mahilang held a meeting with the representatives of political parties and requested them to help with preparation of voter list for the urban body elections.
Presiding over the meeting. the Collector asked the representatives of political parties to help with the preparation of voter list, addition of eligible voter in the voter list, removal of ineligible voters from the voter list and other revision of the voter list.
He said that those voters who are above 18 years of age on January 1, 2014 will have to be registered in the voter list.
The Collector said that new photograph is not being pasted in the voter list prepared for urban boy election but the previous voter list will be used. The objection and claims for voter list will be accepted from September 11-22.
The last date for disposal of objection and claims is September 27. All the political parties will be provided a set of voter list, he added.