Initial voter-lists for the voting centres in all the districts of State will be published on April 18 during the office hours, as informed by Chief Electoral Officer of Chhattisgarh here on Monday.
“All the applications related to revision, addition or deletion in the voter-lists will be accepted by the in-charge officials of respective voting centres. The final voter-list will be published on June 4, 2013, after the necessary modification and revision,’’ a press statement of the State Government informed.
The State goes to Assembly polls later this year to elect a new government. Chief Electoral Officer said that such persons, who are of age 18 years or above as on January 1, 2013 but their names have not appeared in the voter-lists for some or the other reason, may submit an application with their passport-size photo so that their name can be included in the final voter-list and accordingly the voter-ID card can be issued.
Moreover, names of the voters, who are dead or have migrated to other place for some or the other reasons, will be deleted from the voter-list. Any kind of error in printing of name, surname, age, gender or other details of the voter, will also corrected. During this period, voters can view their names in the voter-lists put on display at the respective voting centres. Collectors and District Election Officers of all the districts have been briefed about the special revision programme for voter-lists.
According to Chief Electoral Officer, special revision programme for the voter-lists as on January 1, 2013 is as follows:- the work related to correction in control table and photo merging will be done between April 1-April 3, the preparation of supplementary list by merging of voter-lists and the eligibility date as on January 1, 2013 and printing of the same will be done from April 4 to April 17, after merging of both, the initial voter-list will be published on April 18, 2013, applications related to claims and objections will be received from April 18 to May 10, special campaigns for claims and objections will be held on April 20 (Saturday), April 21 (Sunday), May 4 (Saturday), May 5 (Sunday).
The claims and objections received in the meantime will be redressed on May 23. later, the database will be updated and the supplementary list will printed by June 1, 2013 (Saturday). Thereafter, the final voter-lists will be released on June 4, 2013 (Tuesday).
Chief Electoral Officer also said that the revised programme for publishing of voter-lists will be widely publicized and promoted, so that none of the eligible candidate remains deprived of the right to vote and thereby, error-free and accurate voter-lists can be prepared as per the guidelines of Election Commission of India.