Door to door survey to revise electoral roll to begin

IMPHAL, Feb 16: The state election commission would conduct door to door survey for correction and updating of electoral roll database for the first time as per the directives of the Election Commission of India.

In a press meet held this afternoon at the conference hall of old secretariat block, chief electoral officer of Manipur, PC Lawmkunga stated that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered the state election commission to take up pre-revision activities for correction and updating of electoral roll database and ECI has also decided to maintain a centralized electoral roll database for ensuring great precision in the database.  

Pre-revision activities of developing unicode and transliteration software have been completed and door to door survey that would be conducted by booth level officers (BLOs) and booth level agents (BLAs) would commence from March 2, he added.
CEO Lawmkunga further said that such pre-revision activities would help avoid errors that were found extensively in the previous electoral roll database and the new centralized database developed using advanced software would be made available all throughout the country.

Highlighting the achievement of state election commission, CEO stated that elector's photo identity card (EPIC) has been issued to 13,36,687 voters out of the total 17,27,241 voters which accounts for 77.32 percent and the remaining voters would also be issued EPIC by November.

He also stated that all political parties of the state have been informed to nominate booth level agents (BLAs) for conducting door to door surveys as a part of the pre-revision activities.

Joint CEO, N. Praveen stated that the state election commission would closely monitor addition of new electors in this revised electoral roll database and queries relating to errors in the electoral roll can be submitted to the BLOs and BLAs during the survey.

He said EPIC for the students studying outside the state can be issued if the photographs and documents attested by the head of institution are submitted to the concerned ERO office.

The chief electoral officer also appealed the people to cooperate with the election commission in conducting the pre-revision activities so as to bring out the revised electoral roll database in time.(IFP)

Tremor in Shillong

Shillong, Feb 16

A mild intensity earthquake hit Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, a seisomological official today.The tremor measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale occurred at 1657 hours IST with its epicentre about 10 Km away from the Central Seisomological Office in Upper Shillong. However, there was no report of loss of life and property or anyone being injured from anywhere, a district official said.(NP)