“Voters’ names included at two or more places will be weeded out”
MADURAI BUREAU
Students taking out a rally to create voter awareness in Tirunelveli on Monday.— Photo: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN
To create awareness among the electorate of the ongoing National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme, an awareness rally was taken out here on Monday.
Collector M. Karunakaran flagged off the rally at Tirunelveli taluk office, in which students from various schools and colleges participated.
The Election Commission of India, with the objective of preparing cent per cent error-free voter list, has launched the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) between March 1 and May 15.
Voters’ names included at two or more places will be weeded out by entering Aadhaar number in the voter list. Moreover, all information regarding the voters will be connected either to the voters’ e-mail ids or their mobile phones.
Dr. Karunakaran said the voters should remove their names enrolled in more than one place and submit appropriate applications for correcting the wrongly printed names, address, photographs etc. in the electoral roll.
The voters should furnish to the visiting officials their Aadhar Card number, e-mail id, mobile / landline phone number etc. to be included in the electoral roll along with their names so that ‘double entries’ could be avoided. Besides telling the visiting booth-level officers all these information, the voters could also text these details to ‘51969’ on downloading the mobile app or inform the details through the toll-free number of ‘1950’.
Moreover, the details could be sent through e-mail to tnvoteraadhar@gmail.com or drop the filled-in applications in the drop boxes kept at revenue divisional officers and taluk offices.
“We’ve arranged for special camps to be held on April 12 and 26 and May 10 and 24 for receiving applications and other required information from the voters. The booth-level officers should form booth-level awareness groups comprising members of recognised political parties and volunteers to encourage the voters to make this programme a success. All officials involved in this task should put in earnest efforts so that at least 10 per cent of voters’ Aadhar Card number can be enrolled in the electoral roll,” Dr. Karunakaran said.
Tuticorin
The facility to link Aadhaar numbers with EPICs or voter IDs was launched at the Collectorate in Tuticorin. As many as 250 common facility centres were functional across the district and voters could avail this service free of cost, the Collector M. Ravikumar said.
Besides, voters could also approach booth-level officers with voter ID card numbers, Aadhaar numbers, cell phone numbers and e-mails and get these details filled in forms and submit to the BLOs. Voters could submit Form 8 for making corrections in name, address, or other details and Form 7 for removing multiple registrations in electoral rolls. Electors can make corrections when officials are on a door-to-door survey.