Hyderabad: In order to increase the poll percentage in the next elections and wipe out “fake” voter identity cards in Greater Hyderabad, GHMC will link Aadhaar numbers with the (EPIC) Electoral Photo Identity Card.
Details of citizens whose Aadhaar details do not match or are not available, will be handed over to the Booth Level Officer who will visit these houses and collect information manually.
That apart, a special number will be created to which people can send in their names, addresses and Aadhaar numbers for updating the records.
Those who do not have Aadhaar cards, can approach nearby Mee-Seva center to register and the unique number post registration will be taken.
The scheme will be taken up in all 24 Assembly constituencies. The existing electoral roll list will be updated by deleting duplicate, shifted, dead and migrated people and all other voters duly by linking the databases.
Initially, the scheme will be implemented in three-four constituencies and will later cover all 24 Assembly constituencies.
Chief Electoral Offi-cer Bhanwarlal infor-med that the Election Commission of India had given directions to take up the scheme. “As the Aadhaar scheme was taken up effectively, and since 90 to 95 per cent people have been covered in the entire country, linkage will be helpful in getting more voters enrolled in Telangana including 81.54 lakh voters in GHMC alone. The previous door-to-door survey for voters’ enrolment was not up to the mark due to which the poll percentage remained confined to 52 to 54 per cent in the last general elections. There is a need to increase the poll percentage in the coming elections.”
The linkage is a pilot project conceived by the Election Commissioner and following its results here it will be implemented in other states of the country.
Since Aadhaar has a unique number (biometric verifiable), this linkage with help weed out duplicity.
The date of publication of voters list to the Election Commission, which was schedule to be November 1, will be postponed in view of the linkage.
