The Election Commission of India in order to ensure more participation from voters during the parliamentary election has issued fresh directions to include more serving voters.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer with the Commission in the State Manish Ranjan informing about the directives said that those service voters who could not register their names into the voters’ list can apply even now. The process would continue 10 days before the registration process is continuing.
“Application for registration can be taken or claims can be accepted ten days before the process ends. The serving person fulfilling all the terms and conditions required would be included into the final voters’ list,” said the official on Wednesday.
The personnel serving with central armed forces, State forces serving in any other State, employees in the Union service posted outside the country, ambassadors and employees of with the high commissions abroad and NRIs and wives of all such persons staying with them fall under the category of service voters category.
The Commission has rolled out several forms for different categories of serving voters as per the Representation of Peoples’ Act provisions.
The applications after getting their application forwarded with commanding officers would have to apply online on ‘servicevoter.nic.in’.
The official further informed that 40980 applications have been received from service voters of which 37154 applications have been disposed of at the level of ERO.