Shillong, August 17: The Election Commission of India has decided to take up revision of electoral rolls with reference to 1st January 2017 as the qualifying date. The revision shall be a Special Summary Revision in all States and Union Territories ,except certain Assembly Constituencies of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Adequate publicity and awareness drive shall be ensured by DEOs & CEO regarding the summary revision programme. All the DEOs and CEO shall get the revision schedule properly disseminated to media, political parties and social organizations/RWAs and reach out to electors and eligible population extensively well before the date of draft publication of electoral rolls.
For making the purpose of publication of draft rolls effective, series of SVEEP events, multiple and periodic meetings with political parties at Taluk, district and state levels and regular press meets may be organized. All DEOs and CEO should separately call meetings of political parties and explain the schedule and seek cooperation expected of them before the date of draft publication. The draft publication should be done on the due date with fanfare and the copies of draft rolls should be handed over to political parties in public meeting in the presence of press, media and celebrities.
Periodic reporting to the Commission of progress made during the revision process in the prescribed Formats available at ECI dashboard shall be done regularly and in accordance with the procedure laid down therein. The CEO must check it to ensure its status. At all DEOs/EROs do the necessary entries in the dash board for e-roll monitoring and in All India E-roll Monitoring Application (AIERMA).
It is further clarified that NERP activities shall continue concurrently with revision. However, it must not cause any dislocation to roll revision activities which are of statutory in nature.
