Shillong, March 10: In continuation of this Office letter No.No.SHEL.V/6/2012/19 dated 7.3.2014 and in line with fresh instruction by the Election Commission of India, this is for general information of the public that the Election Commission of India has re-directed to hold a Special Camp up to the 12 th March. 2014 for enrollment of left out voters or whose names has been wrongly deleted during the last Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls with reference to 1.1.2014 as qualifying date.
All the Booth Level Officers will be available at their respective Polling Stations w. e. f 10th March, 2014 till the 12th March, 2014 along with appropriate Form. As mere possession of Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC) is no guarantee that their names is included in the Electoral Rolls, the general public are hereby requested to check their names in the current Electoral Rolls during the aforesaid mentioned dates.
If with reference to the above said qualifying date, should there be any claim for the inclusion or re-inclusion of a name in the roll, it should be lodged in form-6 They are also directed to bring along with such evidence(s) as they may like to adduce in support of their Claim.(SP News)
A Software Powerhouse ?
Yesterday , when I went to polling booth , there was a chaos , with a number of people complaining that their names were missing from the Electoral Rolls ( Voter Lists )
As per news-reports , in Mumbai alone , some 50,000 people returned home without casting their votes – including Deepak Parekh ! Altogether , names of some 15 lakh voters ( out of a total of 98 lakh ) were missing !
Then there are some 300 million people who will simply won’t walk down to the nearest polling booths , and wait for 1 hour to cast their votes ( – assuming that some 40 % of the 814 million eligible voters do not exercise their right to vote )
WHY ?
Going out to vote is becoming a big hassle
COULD IT BE OTHERWISE ?
Sure , if Central Government and the Election Commission care to implement my suggestion for developing a mobile App for voting . I called it , VotesApp
see .. hemenparekh.in/2013/08/votesapp.html
Or , just type in Google , ” VotesApp ”
HOW WILL IT HELP ?
> No need for 930,000 polling booths / EVMs / Ink / Papers etc
Every voter’s own mobile becomes a miniature EVM !
> Nor any need to deploy 1,100,000 people to conduct the polls
> No need for millions of Police / Military personnel
> No need for months of advance preparations, across entire country
> Voting can be completed in just ONE day – instead of over 6 weeks –
and results can be declared next day !
> Voting could be 95 % or more !
> No worry for booth-capture
> No bogus voting ( Bio-metric ID from built-in camera )
> No duplicate voting ( Self-destruct after single usage )
> No worry for any terrorist attacks
> Enormous saving of time for Voters
> No need to declare a public holiday – costing thousands of crores
worth of production
> Central Government will save, at least , Rs 2,000 Crores .
If business-friendly BJP government comes to power , it would not
hesitate to earn Rs 20,000 crores , by enabling 15 million Indian
businesses to advertise to 814 million voters , thru this mobile VotesApp –
sharply targeting by Gender / Age / Marital Status / City / Street /
Education / Income Tax paid / Employed or Jobless ..etc
> No need for Central Government to stop taking even routine decisions
If a tiny country like Estonia ( population 1.6 million ) can elect its Members of Parliament thru a VotesApp type mobile App , why can’t we ?
Already 900+ million Indians have mobiles – all of which , will soon become Smart Phones
And we call our country , a ” Software Powerhouse ” !
* hemen parekh ( 25 April 2014 / Mumbai )