Huge crowd, especially women holding their children, has been witne ssed outside the tehsil office from Monday morning for removal of irregularities and preparation of new voter identity cards.
The women, standing in the long queue holding form and receipt, said that even after 3-4 months of submitting application they could not get the voter ID and those who got it complain of number of irregularities. In such a situation, they could not be able to cast their votes and get other benefits, they added.
In view of the Assembly election, voter ID preparation work had been started in the city from January this year. Forms for voter ID have been collected by deploying officers in the municipal corporation schools and receipts also issued to the applicants.
People are moving from pillar to post to get their voter ID prepared. When they approach anganwadi workers, they direct them to corporators, corporators to tehsildar office and tehsildar to collectorate.
Radheyshyam of Santoshi Nagar said that he has been in the queue for four hours for depositing form for preparation of new voter ID in the name of his son Digambar.
Mohan Sahu from Shakti Nagar said that he had deposited the form three months back, but yet not have received the voter ID. He said, for two days he was standing on the queue but not have any information about his card. Officer said that if his name is in the list, further information would be available on search, he added.
Rakesh Baghel of Kashiram Nagar had deposited his application for preparation of voter identity card of his wife Deeksha Baghel on April 26, but still not got the I card. He said that he had approached anganbadi worker, corporator, municipal corporation, tehsil office and collectorate. But, now he is not hopeful of getting the I Card.
Similarly, people from other wards of the city are also taking rounds of the tehsil office for getting their voter identity cards. On the one hand, people are standing on the huge serpentine line, on the other officers are engaged in searching their I cards.
Officers deployed in the tehsil office said that various problems were coming to the fore regarding voters identity cards. Some people were demanding new I-cards, while others ask for duplicate ones, even some others wanted to register their name in the voter’s list.
Besides, people also standing on the queue for getting ther identity cards. “We are trying to solve the problems of people,”, the officers said.