TIRUPATI, May 1, 2015
STAFF REPORTER
Exercise will be completed by May 15: CEO
Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal has set an ambitious task of May 15 as the deadline for achieving cent per cent linkage of voter identity cards with Aadhaar numbers in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Of the 6.53 crore registered voters in the two Telugu-speaking States, linkage has been achieved for 2.64 crore voters. “The remaining 40 per cent will be linked in a fortnight,” Mr.Bhanwar Lal told the media here on Thursday, after holding a meeting with representatives of political parties. The idea is to hasten up the process by appointing data entry operators at the mandal-level and making extensive use of the social media to create awareness among voters, for which he sought the support of all political parties. “The entire exercise will help eliminate bogus, duplicate and migrant voters,” he said. Mr. Bhanwar Lal said the Aadhaar enumeration would be completed by May 6, technical discrepancies, if any, removed by May 8 and linkage achieved by the said date in the district.