Names of at least 7 lakh voters in the city may be removed from the electoral rolls as officials have not been able to verify their details during the door-to-door verification process undertaken under the National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme of the Election Commission of India.
“Out of 34 lakh voters in the district, the officials have not been able to verify rolls of 9.21 lakh voters,” District Collector N. Yuvaraj noted at a meeting convened to review the process of Aadhaar seeding of EPIC with officials and representatives of political parties.
The district has achieved 66.4 per cent seeding as details of 21 lakh voter have been verified.
The field staff found 47,000 multiple entries and 2,962 ineligible voters. In all, 56,000 voters were found to have dead.
Of the 9.21 lakh voters, the officials found that 5 lakh had changed their residences and homes of 4.21 lakh voters were found locked.
The Collector directed the officials to revisit the homes of the voters whose doors were locked.
He urged the political parties to ask their cadre to go to every nook and corner and create awareness among the voters to get their names verified and link their EPIC with Aadhaar number by the month-end.
Registration
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