After directive of Election Commission,the district administration will launch special campaign to ensuring 100 per cent registration of the new young voters, from July 01 to 31 in the district. Garhwa DC Neha Arora said that under the campaign district administration has decided to compulsorily distribute voter registration forms along with the admission forms in the educational institutes of the district.
Arora said that the move was aimed at sensitising the youngsters between age group of 18-21 years about the need to enroll themselves as the voters. She said that as per the instructions of Election Commission of India (ECI) the district administration would ensure that these forms were disbursed to the students along with the admission forms.
The Deputy Commissioner said that during the previous revision of electoral rolls more than 19000 youngsters were left to be registered as voters due to which now the administration has set a target to cover them in a special drive starting from July 1-31, 2017. He said that the main motive of this drive is to ensure error free revision of the electoral rolls by adding the left segment of voters along with adding the new voters.