At 12,000, Pune district’s voter-Aadhaar linkage lowest

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“Several drives and even the facility enabling people to link their voter ID cards or Electoral Photo Identity Cards to Aadhaar number by themselves has not elicited expected response. The process is simple and just requires people to visit the election website or the administration’s website to feed their Aadhaar number. However, people even hesitate to do that. The drive urging voters to get their repeated names deleted has fallen flat too,” said deputy election officer Samiksha Chandrakkar Gokule.

Gokule added, “If people do not respond to notices issued by the administration regarding repeated names, which requires them to fill form 7 to get their names deleted from the constituency of their choice, the administration after a certain period will be forced to suo motu delete their names as per the instructions from the EC.”

Meanwhile, the administration conducted a day-long drive to link Aadhaar numbers to voter IDs on Sunday. Officials said they will have to conduct many such drives as the performance of the Pune district is dismal.

With the rest of the divisions boasting of linking over 1 lakh names, the administration now plans to reach out to societies, political parties, MPs, MLAs and even IT professionals to help them link as many names as possible.