‘Aadhaar, electoral ID linkage by August 15’

March 03, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:48 am IST - GUNTUR:

The Election Commission will launch a nationwide drive on March 3 to streamline electoral rolls by linking UIDAI’s Aadhaar data with electoral photo identity card (EPIC) database. The project is to be completed by August 15 this year, member, Election Watch, P.C Sai Babu has said.

The seeding of Aadhaar number with EPIC under the National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP), will end duplication of electors database by weeding out fraudulent (duplicate, bogus, ineligible and shifted) EPIC Card holders.

Mr. Sai Babu said NERPAP also proposes linking of mobile number and e-mail address to provide poll-related information to voters. It will also allow electors to voluntarily disclose multiple entries pertaining to him, followed by disposal of such cases by the electoral registration officer (ERO) within 15 days.

The programme will also allow correction of errors in EPIC database on production of cogent documentary evidence, besides allowing improvement of image quality of elector by borrowing better photos from the UIDAI database.

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