Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 10: According to the office of Chief Electoral Office, the date of filing/receiving claims and objections (additions/deletions/corrections/transpositions) from all the eligible electors culminated on 8th December 2019 across all the 316 community blocks of the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh under annual revision of Panchayat Photo Electoral Roll with respect to 01.01.2020 as qualifying date.
The electoral rolls of the constituencies of the Panchayat Halqas were to be prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Act, Rules and procedure and accordingly the last updated electoral roll prepared for Panchayat election 2018 was taken as the basis for the revision of electoral roll and published on 18th November 2019.
The total claims and objections received from all the districts were recorded as 113757, which includes 70170 newly enrolled electors. The total deletions marked during the revision period stood at 27379. Corrections in particulars of name, age and address were 5447 and transposition of electors have been recorded as 10761. The figures can go up after receiving the information from the far-flung areas.
The revision of electoral rolls was carried out in accordance with the schedule prescribed by Election Authority UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh with the publication of last updated Electoral roll (Draft Roll) at all the polling station locations, offices of AEROs and EROs on 18th November 2019. The disposal process of the received claims and objections is underway in all the districts and as per revision schedule the final publication of Electoral Rolls will be done on 26th December 2019.
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