Electoral roll Observer V. Shashank Shekhar during a meeting with DC Mokokchung, political parties, NGOs, and public of Mokokchung district, at DC’s conference hall on November 23. (DIPR Photo)
Dimapur, November 23 (DIPR): Election Commission of India (ECI) Electoral roll Observer for Mon, Longleng, Mokokchung and Wokha districts V. Shashank Shekhar has made it clear that the figures of Electoral roll should be consistent with the state level figures.
Shashank Shekhar, who held a meeting with recognized political parties, NGOs and public of Mokokchung district at DC’s Conference Hall on November 23, 2011 on his second visit to the district said there has been lot of improvement in the verification of electoral roll in the district but insisted that more verification needs to be carried out to bring the electoral roll percentage at the state level. Nagaland state Electoral roll percentage to the total population of 2011 census stands at 67 per cent whereas the percentage of total electors to total population of Mokokchung district was recorded at 94%. With intensive verification conducted by administrative officers and Booth Level Officers in the district, the percentage has been brought down to 72 percent after making suo moto deletion of 6167 persons and another about 33820 persons where notice is being issued for further deletion as on November 22, 2011 update.
However, even after such exercise, there are certain areas where percentage is still abnormally high which needs to be rectified. He said the assembly constituencies where percentage is above 70% are 22-Arkakong, 25-Mongoaya, 28-Koridang and 29-Jangpetkong which is considered much higher than the broad working range and requires intensive verification.
The Observer said in the meeting that electoral roll percentage recorded below 50 % and above 70 % in any polling stations should be re-verified for which the observer asked the district Administration particularly the BLOs to carry out the re verification of electoral roll. Shashank Shekhar further said high percentage of electoral roll as compared to total population in any polling station would not be accepted by the Election Commission and may ask for re-verification. Therefore he called upon all concerned to understand the importance of ongoing steps being taken by the Election Commission to clean the electoral roll by deleting those non-genuine voters from electoral roll.
The ECI had appointed three senior officers; namely, N.Putsure, T.C Sangtam and V.Shashank Shekhar as Electoral Roll Observer for Nagaland state for the ongoing summary revision of electoral roll in the state.
Shashank Shekhar, who held a meeting with recognized political parties, NGOs and public of Mokokchung district at DC’s Conference Hall on November 23, 2011 on his second visit to the district said there has been lot of improvement in the verification of electoral roll in the district but insisted that more verification needs to be carried out to bring the electoral roll percentage at the state level. Nagaland state Electoral roll percentage to the total population of 2011 census stands at 67 per cent whereas the percentage of total electors to total population of Mokokchung district was recorded at 94%. With intensive verification conducted by administrative officers and Booth Level Officers in the district, the percentage has been brought down to 72 percent after making suo moto deletion of 6167 persons and another about 33820 persons where notice is being issued for further deletion as on November 22, 2011 update.
However, even after such exercise, there are certain areas where percentage is still abnormally high which needs to be rectified. He said the assembly constituencies where percentage is above 70% are 22-Arkakong, 25-Mongoaya, 28-Koridang and 29-Jangpetkong which is considered much higher than the broad working range and requires intensive verification.
The Observer said in the meeting that electoral roll percentage recorded below 50 % and above 70 % in any polling stations should be re-verified for which the observer asked the district Administration particularly the BLOs to carry out the re verification of electoral roll. Shashank Shekhar further said high percentage of electoral roll as compared to total population in any polling station would not be accepted by the Election Commission and may ask for re-verification. Therefore he called upon all concerned to understand the importance of ongoing steps being taken by the Election Commission to clean the electoral roll by deleting those non-genuine voters from electoral roll.
The ECI had appointed three senior officers; namely, N.Putsure, T.C Sangtam and V.Shashank Shekhar as Electoral Roll Observer for Nagaland state for the ongoing summary revision of electoral roll in the state.
