EC’s contentious voter roll drive kick-starts in Bihar

would be launching an app for migrant workers to apply online from their place of residence and then the BLOs would be verifying the voters by visiting their homes during the house to house verification in the next few weeks till July 25.

Meanwhile , a PTI report said the Election Commission will soon upload the 2003 Bihar electoral roll on its website to facilitate the nearly 4.96 crore voters whose names figure on it extract the relevant portion to be attached with the enumeration form for the special intensive revision of the voters’ list.

According to the instructions issued by the poll authority to its Bihar poll machinery, the 4.96 crore voters -- 60 per cent of the total electors -- who were listed in the 2003 special intensive revision need not submit any supporting document to establish their date or place or birth except the relevant portion of the electoral roll brought out after the revision.

The other three crore -- nearly 40 per cent -- will have to provide one of the 11 listed documents to establish their place or date of birth.

“The basic exercise is to identify each and every individual of the remaining three crore voters before their names are included in the list,” a functionary explained. The special intensive revision will ensure that no eligible elector is left out of the electoral rolls and no ineligible one is part of it, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar told PTI on Sunday.

According to EC instructions, the electoral registration officer (ERO) of each assembly constituency will be responsible for ensuring that “no eligible citizen is left out and no ineligible person is included in the electoral roll” while carrying out the revision.

The EROs will satisfy themselves regarding the eligibility of every person before entering their name in the electoral roll.

The EC said every existing elector, as on the date, will be provided available an enumeration form through a booth level officer (BLO). The elector can download the enumeration form  a dedicated website.

REFERENCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES