Summary revision of electors' list extended by 2 weeks
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 26 2016:
The Gram Sabha Special Summary Revision, which had already concluded on September 24 last, has been extended by another two weeks, informed Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Vivek Kumar Dewangan to media persons during an interaction held at the Conference Hall of Old Secretariat today.
He said that in view of purifying the electors, the Election Department has conducted the first round of Gram Sabha Special Summary Re-- vision on September 10 while second round was held on September 24 .
The main objective of conducting Gram Sabha was purification of electoral rolls.
In this process, BLOs.
Supervisors, public representatives etc were included.
The State election officials will strictly follow the instructions and advice of the ECI.
Regular interactions with press/media, political parties will be held on fortnightly basis, he announced.
For claims and objections, the electors may use form number 6 for addition, form number 7 for deletion and form number 8 for correction.
The electors can do the needful by obtaining the forms from the BLOs.
Double and multiple entry of electors will be checked in Gram Sabha.
As per instruction of the Election Commission, rationalization of ROs.
EROs.
AEROs for the 60 Assembly Constituencies will be done so that each Assembly Constituency will be looked after by one officer.
A proposal in this regard has been sent to the Election Commission.
The proposal includes appointing 39 ROs EROs and 73 AEROs AROs.
stated the CEO.
he CEO appealed to all stakeholders, political parries to come forward and co-operate with election machinery like EROs in purifying the electoral rolls.
In the purification exercise, the election authorities want to clean those electors who have double/multiple entry in the electoral rolls.
The Election Department is trying its best to bring out error free final publication of Electoral Rolls on January 2.2017 with January 1.2017 as the qualifying date.
The CEO further said that ECI will hold video conferencing with DCs and SPs on September 28 2016 pertaining to die preparedness for the ensuing general election for Manipur.
Additional CEO Shri RK Dinesh also attended the press briefing.