Voter card-Aadhaar linking from March 9

Before that, staff to undergo training in Hyderabad

March 05, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:51 am IST - VISAKHAPATNAM:

Additional Joint Collector D. Venkata Reddy demonstrating how a voter can give Aadhaar link to his or her EPIC card through a smart phone, in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.

Additional Joint Collector D. Venkata Reddy demonstrating how a voter can give Aadhaar link to his or her EPIC card through a smart phone, in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday.

The process of linking Aadhar unique ID number with Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC), voter ID card, of the 34 lakh voters in the district will commence on March 9 after the officials and staff undergo training at the Marri Chenna Reddi HRD Institute in Hyderabad.

The programme is being conducted under the National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication programme of the Election Commission of India and will be taken up in Visakhapatnam, Chittoor and Krishna districts after a pilot project in Nizamabad gave good results, Additional Joint Collector D. Venkata Reddy said here on Wednesday. It would be implemented in other districts soon. Collector and District Election Officer N. Yuvaraj attended a workshop conducted through video conference during last month.

The Aadhar seeding would continue for 45 days and the purification process - elimination of bogus voters - should be completed by July 31. A special awareness programme would be conducted for 45 days all over the district. A district-level meeting with representatives of political parties would be held here on March 9 and also at Assembly constituencies level. The parties would be asked to appoint their own booth level activists to explain the process and execute the same.

Voters could adopt any of the three methods for Aadhar seeding - through the webpage, SMS or help desk, Mr. Venkata Reddy said.

“One can have only one Aadhar UID number though he or she might have two or three EPICs but once the Aadhar number is linked to one EPIC, linkage with other EPICs would be rejected”, he said. After Aadhar-voter card link was made by the voter the details would be given to the Booth Level Officers for physical verification. The reports are fed into the portal at the local Tahsildar’s office for the officials login and then forwarded to the Election Returning Officer’s login. An Ok from the ERO would mean the voter ID card was seeded with Aahdar completely. In case a voter has to be removed from the voters’ list the process of serving him or her a notice under Section 22 of the People’s Representative Act should be followed.

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