The Hindu 03.11.2009
GHMC area has 56.4 lakh voters
| An increase of 2.4 lakh voters since Assembly polls in May this year |
Ensure all fresh voters get photo ID cards, officials told
Division wise, polling station wise rolls being readied
HYDERABAD: There has been an increase of 2.4 lakh voters in GHMC area after the Assembly elections held in May this year. This takes the total electorate to 56.4 lakh now that enrolment of voters has been frozen after last week’s election notification.
Special Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu instructed his staff on Monday to ensure all fresh voters get elector photo identity cards within a week. Election officials are also frantically trying to prepare division wise and polling station wise electoral rolls from the master list. Only then can they come out with compact discs to be distributed to interested parties.
Otherwise, they are facing a gargantuan problem of supplying hard copies of the master voter list running into several pages to political parties and others. Preparation of postal ballots is also underway for officials on poll duty and those likely to be under preventive detention to cast their votes. Respective police stations have been requested to prepare a list of such persons and convey the same to election officials concerned to mark them on the master voter list. For officials on poll duty, forms will be given during the training workshops for submission to the ROs concerned for issuing the postal ballot within seven days before date of polling.
