Election Commission of India (ECI) has declared the schedule for brief electoral roll revision in the state for the Lok Sabha polls scheduled in the year 2019.
A phase wise programme was declared in this regard through a circular issued by the ECI for preparation of Photo Identity Voter List for this purpose.
The persons who have attained the age of 18 years as on January 1, 2019 would be eligible to get their names enrolled in the electoral list apart from the eligible persons who failed to get enrolled for the assembly elections 2018.
State Chief Electoral Officer Subrat Sahoo informed that as per schedule detailed voter list would be published on December 26, 2018 after the revision of electoral list. The claims and objections would be invited in between December 26, 2018 and January 25, 2019.
The claims and objections would be sorted out till February 11, 2019 and a database would be created before February 18 and a supplementary voter list would be prepared.
After amendments and inclusion of new names a final revised list would be out on February 22, 2019, he said.