Aadhaar-Voter Photo Identity Card Link Mooted to Weed Out Bogus Voters
By Express News Service
Published: 14th October 2014 06:03 AM
HYDERABAD : For the first time in the country, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in coordination with Election Commission of India (ECI) proposes to link Aadhar unique identity card with election photo identity card (EPIC) numbers to weed out duplicate voters.
ECI had issued directions to take up the programme for seeding EPIC with Aadhar card in the GHMC limits as this is going to be first-of-its-kind exercise to be introduced in the country, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Bhanwarlal said.
The CEO instructed GHMC Commissioner Somesh Kumar to take up the scheme in all 24 assembly constituencies of GHMC in a time-bound manner. The linkage will be helpful in checking duplication of voters and also in voter enrolment.
The CEO along with Collectors of Hyderabad and Medak districts, GHMC Special Commissioners and Additional Commissioner (Elections) held a review meeting with all the EROs and AEROs for implementation of the proposed scheme in GHMC limits with immediate effect.
He interacted with officials and directed the Additional Commissioner (Elections) to take up a training programme to all the EROs and AEROs at Harihara Kala Bhavan on Tuesday and also to take up training programmes for all the booth level officers explaining them their role to play for having better results in the existing electoral rolls.
The GHMC Commissioner said they would take up the innovative scheme on a war-footing basis and the existing electoral roll list will be checked properly to delete duplicate, dead, migrated voters and all other voters duly linking up with Aadhar card data base.
Software of Aadhar card will be linked with EPIC duly involving the EROs, AEROs to implement the scheme and based on the information BLOs will be given instructions to visit door to door removing the duplicate, dead and migrated voters and to update the existing ones.