State election department on Tuesday informed that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has launched an intensive drive called “National Electoral Rolls Purification (NERP) 2016” w.e.f. March 1, 2016.
In a press release, Nagaland chief electoral officer (CEO) Sanjay Kumar stated that the programme, which would continue till August 31, 2016, would include enrolment of all eligible citizens and removal of repeated and multiple entries; entries of dead, shifted & absent voters, correction of errors in EPIC and removal of other data errors.
During this drive, Sanjay Kumar said that repeat images would also be corrected, missing photographs would be collected and poor quality of image would be replaced by good quality photographs.
Polling station related issues such as rationalization in a holistic and comprehensive way would also be addressed during this period, Sanjay Kumar stated.
Standardization and rationalization of sections within a part, Part/PS boundaries and polling station locations demarcation would be undertaken keeping in view the voters’ convenience and facilities available along with the ease of conduct of poll in the future.
In this regard, the state chief electoral officer has requested all stakeholders such as political parties, NGOs, village authority, town/ward authority and general voters to extend cooperation to the district election authority and the election department in this endeavour to improve the fidelity of electoral rolls and re-organization of polling stations with Basic Minimum Facilities (BMFs) for voters’ facilitation and convenience.
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