In tune with the theme ‘No voters to be left behind’, the Election Commission of India (ECI) would launch a nationwide comprehensive programme called ‘Special Drive’ with effect from July 1- 31, 2017. The month of June 2017 would be used for preparatory works. In a press release, chief electoral officer (O) Nagaland, N.Moa Aier, stated that activities of Special Drive would include enrolment of eligible young Indian Citizens particularly in 18-19 age group and removal of names of dead electors, multiple names, transferred out names and underage, which were still continuing in the electoral rolls.
Data on registered deaths would be collected from the Registrar of Deaths and all registered death entries would be removed during the special drive. Publicity and related issues such as campaign to motivate the electors to get their names registered and participate in the electoral process for stronger democracy would be organized during this period, Aier stated. Further, CEO said that special campaign dates would be held on July 8 and July 22, 2017.
Camps would be held in all polling stations where booth level officer (BLO) would sit with adequate number of inclusion forms. On the day of camp, entire final Electoral Roll 2017 would be made available in the polling stations so citizens could check their names in the existing rolls. The left out eligible citizens could fill the inclusion forms and give the same to the BLO at polling station itself. Also, BLO would visit door to door in the area falling under his jurisdiction for collection of Form-6 from the applicants, particularly in 18-19 age group (extendable to 21 years of age) from the period between July 1, 2017 and July 31, 2017. Forms could also be sent online through NVSP Portal of ECI Website: eci.nic.in
All stakeholders such as political parties, NGOs, Churches, Media etc. have been requested to extend cooperation/ participation for maximization of registration of eligible electors and removing the impurities in the rolls.