MALDA,(India) Dec.13. — The Election Commission officials are reportedly facing some problems in maintaining a fair system of electoral roll revision at the block-level, as some persons on contract basis have been engaged in serving notifications to the people, a senior official of the election department said today.
During the visit of the EC team to the Malda district yesterday, it was alleged that not only the personnel for serving notifices, but also the government employees were being guided by the political parties to guard political interests in the revision of the electoral rolls.
Most of these employees working at the block-level, belong to organisations backed by the ruling political party.
As a result, these employees working for electoral roll revision can easily convince the local government employees to divulge information about some people, who have not handed over their notifications.
The underlying objective is to avoid informing those supporting the Opposition political parties, from attending hearing at a particular place and time, for the inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls.
As such, in case of absence, their names will automatically be deleted from the final electoral rolls.
The officials also discussed the process to be followed for the system of notification by engaging direct government employees to deal with such difficult situations.
“The EC is planning to formulate a system for fair electoral roll revision in the state,” a district official said.
At present, the election officials are following a strict procedure for accepting applications.
The applicants are being asked to submit at least one document to prove that they are Indian citizens.
Inaugurating a permanent EPIC distribution centre at the Malda district magistrate’s office yesterday, the secretary of the Election Commission of India, Mr RK Shrivastava, directed the district officials to distribute all the electronic photo identify cards that are lying in the processing units. #
During the visit of the EC team to the Malda district yesterday, it was alleged that not only the personnel for serving notifices, but also the government employees were being guided by the political parties to guard political interests in the revision of the electoral rolls.
Most of these employees working at the block-level, belong to organisations backed by the ruling political party.
As a result, these employees working for electoral roll revision can easily convince the local government employees to divulge information about some people, who have not handed over their notifications.
The underlying objective is to avoid informing those supporting the Opposition political parties, from attending hearing at a particular place and time, for the inclusion of their names in the electoral rolls.
As such, in case of absence, their names will automatically be deleted from the final electoral rolls.
The officials also discussed the process to be followed for the system of notification by engaging direct government employees to deal with such difficult situations.
“The EC is planning to formulate a system for fair electoral roll revision in the state,” a district official said.
At present, the election officials are following a strict procedure for accepting applications.
The applicants are being asked to submit at least one document to prove that they are Indian citizens.
Inaugurating a permanent EPIC distribution centre at the Malda district magistrate’s office yesterday, the secretary of the Election Commission of India, Mr RK Shrivastava, directed the district officials to distribute all the electronic photo identify cards that are lying in the processing units. #
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