In connection with the Election Commission of India’s recently declared National Electoral Roll Purification (NERP), 2016 programme and Systematic Voters’ Education & Electoral Participation (SVEEP), a meeting has been convened with state level political parties and the NGOs on April 2, 2016 at the official residence of chief electoral officer (CEO), Nagaland at 4 p.m. followed by dinner. Invitees include president Bharatya Janata Party; president Indian National Congress; president Nagaland Peoples’ Front; president Janata Dal (United); president Nationalist Congress Party and president Beauty & Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN).
According to a DIPR report, the meeting would deliberate on issues pertaining to the drive with the main objective being to improve the health of the Electoral Rolls (ER) and to rationalize the Polling Stations (PSs) boundaries and location.
NERP, 2016 will also 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, repeat images will also be corrected, missing photographs will be collected; poor quality of images will be replaced by good quality photographs.
All the members have been requested to cooperate and attend the meeting positively, with highlights of any action taken, if any, since the last meeting and Action Plan for the current purification drive. Each group may be represented by one or up to two members.