GANGTOK, 21 Jan: With 13,505 electors registered as new voters in the age group of 18-19 years, the number of total voters in the State has now risen to 3,62,326. The newly enrolled voters will get PVC voter identity cards from this year onwards informed, Chief Electoral Officer of Sikkim, D Anandan, while addressing media persons here today.
The office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Sikkim published a new draft voters’ list on 01 January, this year.
The new voters will be provided with PVC Electoral Photo ID Cards on the National Voters’ Day, celebrated throughout the State on 25 January.
“The PVC cards will be as simple as Pan and ATM cards to carry. However, paper voters’ identity cards will also be valid, there should be no confusion about that”, said the Chief Electoral Officer.
The new voters were registered during the five-month exercise from 01 September last year to 01 January this year. As per the data provided to media, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Sikkim has deleted as many as 4,619 voters from the enrollment voters list after hearing objections and duplication in voters list.
The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has also requested voters to check whether their names are not recorded in the voters list since mere possession of a voter card is not enough for casting a vote during the elections unless a person’s name is available on the voters list.
It was further informed that the State level National Voters’ Day function will be held at Chintan Bhawan in Gangtok on 25 January later this week. The function will be chaired by the Chief Secretary R Ongmu.
The main purpose behind the celebration is to increase enrollment in order to attain Universal Adult Franchise for effective and successful democratic system through Special Voters Education Programme Training.
A significant number of eligible voters of 18 years and above are not enrolled in the electoral rolls, in spite of Annual Revision exercise undertaken at the grass root level. As a result, the Election Commission of India has decided to take up vigorous exercise to identify all eligible voters, who have attained the age of 18 years as on 15 January, every year throughout the country and in addition to this, there is also a provision of continuous up date of Electoral Rolls in the period between two Summary Revisions.
The office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Sikkim published a new draft voters’ list on 01 January, this year.
The new voters will be provided with PVC Electoral Photo ID Cards on the National Voters’ Day, celebrated throughout the State on 25 January.
“The PVC cards will be as simple as Pan and ATM cards to carry. However, paper voters’ identity cards will also be valid, there should be no confusion about that”, said the Chief Electoral Officer.
The new voters were registered during the five-month exercise from 01 September last year to 01 January this year. As per the data provided to media, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer of Sikkim has deleted as many as 4,619 voters from the enrollment voters list after hearing objections and duplication in voters list.
The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has also requested voters to check whether their names are not recorded in the voters list since mere possession of a voter card is not enough for casting a vote during the elections unless a person’s name is available on the voters list.
It was further informed that the State level National Voters’ Day function will be held at Chintan Bhawan in Gangtok on 25 January later this week. The function will be chaired by the Chief Secretary R Ongmu.
The main purpose behind the celebration is to increase enrollment in order to attain Universal Adult Franchise for effective and successful democratic system through Special Voters Education Programme Training.
A significant number of eligible voters of 18 years and above are not enrolled in the electoral rolls, in spite of Annual Revision exercise undertaken at the grass root level. As a result, the Election Commission of India has decided to take up vigorous exercise to identify all eligible voters, who have attained the age of 18 years as on 15 January, every year throughout the country and in addition to this, there is also a provision of continuous up date of Electoral Rolls in the period between two Summary Revisions.
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