Voter registration facility to be available on weekends
TOI : PUNE: In a bid to step up the process to prepare accurate voter list as well as inclusion of photos in the list, the district administration has announced that the booth level officers (BLO) will be asked to work on Saturdays and Sundays at polling centres where they can be approached by citizens for new registration or corrections.
Eligible voters, who have been residing in the city for more than six months but do not hold any address proof can also include their names in voter list by submitting an affidavit, district collector Chandrakant Dalvi said here on Friday. “The Pune Lok Sabha constituency has more than 18 lakh registered voters. Out of the total, as many as 60 per cent have not submitted their photos. We are initiating a special drive to speed up the process for inclusion of photos. Citizens are appealed to submit the photos and also carry out the corrections regarding name, address and age, if there are any.”
It has been observed that a number of citizens cannot find time to visit the registration offices during weekdays. “Therefore, we are planning to establish booths at the polling centres which will be open on Saturdays and Sundays for a stipulated period. Voters can approach the booth to submission photos and carry out corrections. The drive will begin in July.
Dalvi said that a meeting was held on Thursday by the state election commission where various corrective measures were discussed for increasing the percentage of photo submission in the prominent cities in the state. Similar drives will be taken up in Mumbai and Thane as well. Dalvi said social organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has already approached to assist the administration during the photo collection drive, which will continue till July 22. Print Emai…More
