Ghost photo appears with 126 deleted names
DJ Venkatesh
Port Blair, Jan 19: Call it a major glitch in technology, total negligence or failure of system, major blunders have surfaced in the Electoral Roll of North and Middle Andaman.
It has been learnt that photo of an unknown old lady has appeared with as many as 128 names of voters, whose name have been deleted from North Andaman region electoral roll.
Forget about names of common man even against the name of the Pradhan of Diglipur Mr. P R Singaram photo of some other person surfaced, even after three corrections.
In entire Diglipur region alone there are 358 such blunders noted by public, which are related to wrong photos.
It has been learnt that similar mistakes are also reported from Middle Andaman region and Ferrargunj Tehsils of A & N Islands.
Most shocking matter is that even in Ferrargunj Tehsil photo of same lady appeared with several names.
Recently the electoral rolls of A & N Constituency carried out
corrections and published new data on 6 Jan 2014 . Major political parties and other persons filed their claims and objections on the data of the electoral rolls during the period as provided by the election commission to ensure the accuracy of the data and photographs incorporated in the electoral rolls, special campaigns involving the booth level agents of the political parties were held in all the polling stations across the islands.
Responding to the appeal, the political parties conducted door to door survey to verify the accuracy of the details in the draft electoral rolls, and thereby ensuring the required deletions and additions in the rolls apart from them media also motivated the people to get their names enrolled in the electoral list.
This is the third time the Electoral rolls corrections are being
carried out during these 4 years and everyone was hopeful that this time the island region with lesser population can update the Electoral rolls with the 100 percent enrollment of eligible voters.
But to their dismay this time also corrections are not up to the mark.
As per notification from Election office all panchayat officers
displayed electoral rolls at panchayats and correction if any to be intimated before 20th of this month. So people from all the places thronged to panchayat offices to see their names in list. The staff of Panchayat BLO’s also lashed by the public regarding the mistakes.
It is learnt that the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Sanjay Kumar I.A.S. who was camping at Port Blair had recently asked all the electoral card staffs of N & M Andaman sub division to report at Port Blair Electoral Office with the Data but the outcome is still now known.
Hope atleast before the elections the blunders are rectified. This year’s National Voters’ Day (25th January) slogan is “Proud To Be A Voter, Ready To Vote” but with faulty data who will be proud and get ready to vote? Hope this time the Electoral Office will get all these mistakes corrected.
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