Field verification for preparing photo electoral rolls for the local body elections in 2015 will begin on October 1, State Election Commissioner K. Sasidharan Nair has said.
Mr. Sasidharan Nair told presspersons here on Tuesday that electoral registration officers had been designated to prepare the rolls. Secretaries of panchayats and municipalities and additional secretaries of municipal corporations had the responsibility of preparing the rolls.
Training completedDistrict-level training had been completed. Verification should be conducted within a month on holidays and after office hours on working days. Officers designated for verification could include only the ward and door numbers on the rolls. On completing the verification, the rolls would be adopted to the civic body wards and then to the booth level in each ward. Anganwadi workers and staff of local self-government institutions would be deployed for the work.
This was first experimented in the election to the Mattannur municipality in 2012.
The new rolls were being prepared on the basis of the Central Election Commission’s voter list used for the last Lok Sabha elections, Mr. Sasidharan Nair said. The lists had been prepared on the basis of the polling booths in the Assembly segments. There were 16,650 wards in grama panchayats and 2,575 wards in municipalities and corporations. There were 21,420 Assembly booths in the State. Each Assembly booth would have more than one local body division.
Since the Assembly booth-level lists were being adopted to the level of civic body wards, the present ward and door numbers were very important for the verification process, Mr. Sasidharan Nair said. The National Informatics Centre was providing the technical assistance. After publishing the draft list, electoral registration officers would be entrusted with the task of collecting complaints. The officers would be directed to include and delete names from the lists, Mr. Sasidharan Nair said.
