Monday, April 13, 2015

7762 - Camps for linking Aadhaar with EPIC - The Hindu

TUTICORIN, April 12, 2015

STAFF REPORTER

Special camps for preparing a fool-proof poll roll under the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) will be organised in all 1, 521 polling booths across Tuticorin district on April 12 as per the directive from Election Commission, Collector M. Ravikumar said in a statement on Saturday.

During the camp schedule, which commences from 10 a.m. and continues until 5 p.m. in the polling booths, booth level officers and other staff deputed to the camp would collect application forms to link Aadhaar data with Electoral Voter Identity Cards (EPIC) to avoid duplication of voters. The voters should fill in details of Aadhaar card number, mobile phone number and e-mail address in the application forms, which could be obtained from booths.

Door-to-door
Applications for linking ‘Aadhaar’ data with EPIC details were being distributed in a door-to-door visit by the staff. Besides, inclusion of new voters and complaints regarding deletion of names, correction in names, change of photograph and address in EPIC could also be sought by submitting forms - 6,7,8 and 8 A.


Hence, the Collector appealed to the voters to make use of these special camps