TIRUNELVELI, April 27, 2015
MADURAI BUREAU
Corporation Commissioner S. Madhumathi inspecting the voters special camp at St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School in Tuticorin on Sunday. (Right) Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan inspecting a camp at a school in Boothapandi in Kanyakumari district.— Photo: N. Rajesh
Voters visit booths to get their EPICs linked with Aadhaar details
The second phase of special camps of National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) for preparing error-free voters’ list by linking Aadhaar numbers were held at a large number of poling booths in the district on Sunday.
The NERPAP is going on in the district from March 25 with Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) collecting mobile numbers, e-mail IDs and Aadhaar numbers from the voters for entering the details in the voters’ list so as to eliminate bogus voters in the list. To facilitate this process, a special camp was organised.
Those who had not given these details in the first phase submitted the mobile numbers, e-mail IDs and Aadhaar numbers at the poling booths on Sunday.
A large number of voters also submitted applications for addition or deletion of voters’ names and changes in address during the special camps.
Tuticorin
The camps were held at 1,521 polling booths across Tuticorin district. Those who were yet to receive Aadhaar cards gave letters of acknowledgement with their photos and fingerprints to the BLOs at various booths. They could get their EPICs linked to Aadhaar cards when they received them, , sources said.
Apart from BLOs, 146 supervisors including in the ranks of Deputy Tahsildar and Deputy Block Development Officer monitored the work at booths.
Collector M. Ravikumar and Tuticorin Corporation Commissioner S. Madhumathi inspected booths in Tuticorin.
Nagercoil
Special camps were held in all the 1,629 polling booths in the six Assembly segments in Kanyakumari district.
The camps will also be held on May 10 and May 24 as per the instructions of the ECI.
Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan inspected a few booths in Nagercoil and Boothapandi. Nagercoil Revenue Divisional Officer Madhiayazhagan and other officials accompanied him.
It was alleged that the voters who visited a polling booth in a panchayat union primary school in Thanumalyanpudur near Aralvoimozhi were shocked to find the school locked.
The officials were working with makeshift arrangements on the roadside.
When contacted, the Collector said he had not received any complaint in this regard till evening.