In Lyngdoh wake, special revision of poll rolls

For this special revision, the existing electoral rolls, which were published on May 15 this year, will be published as draft electoral rolls on August 28 for inviting claims and objections for which a time of three weeks (up to September 18) will be given, the sources said.

Official enumerators will also undertake house-to-house surveys in cities, towns and villages of the 20 riot-hit districts. The list of the areas will be drawn by the CEO in consultation with the District Election Officers and other relevant authorities by Wednesday.

On the basis of this, enumerators will prepare three separate lists of deletions, inclusions and corrections in the existing rolls.

The final electoral rolls will be published on October 15. The EC has also directed the CEO to launch a programme to issue electors’ photo identity cards (EPICs) from October 1 once the verification is over.

At each place recently visited by the commission and its team, there was a common grievance that some electors displaced in the riots had lost the EPICs along with their belongings.

An official said that of the 3.24 crore voters listed in the electoral rolls as published in May, about one crore were yet to be issued EPICs. ‘‘As directed by the EC, we may launch a special drive soon to issue identity cards to as many remaining voters as possible,’’ he said.