Jalandhar district has 16.21L registered voters

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 15

The district administration today handed over the final voter lists of nine legislative Assembly segments, prepared after a Special Summary Revision, to the representatives of the various political parties under Election Verification Programme (EVP).

Handing over the lists to representatives of various political parties, Additional Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Sarangal said the lists had been prepared by the Election Commission of India after a thorough process was carried out minutely in the district under EVP.

He added that there were 16,01,523 voters in Jalandhar when the draft electoral were published and now after the completion of EVP, Jalandhar has now 16,21,161 voters which show that a total of 19,638 new voters have been registered. Among a total of 16,21,161 voters, 8,44,619 are male, 7,76,516 are female and 26 belong to the third gender.

He said these lists were available with the District Election Office, Office of EROs and even with the Booth Level Officers at the respective polling booths. He said these lists could also be seen on website ceopunjab.nic.in.

In order to facilitate people to get them enrolled as voters for participating in the democratic process more enthusiastically, the Election Commission of India had announced the schedule for special summary revision of photo electoral roll under EVP.

The claims and objections for the draft publication of rolls were received from November 16 to December 15 at the concerned polling booths or the offices of the Registration Officers/ Assistant Registration Officers. Likewise on January 5, the claims and objections were settled and as per the instructions of the ECI, the database was updated under the EVP. On the occasion, Election Kanungo Rakesh Kumar and others were present.