Election Commission team in Jharkhand
Jharkhand Assembly Election: Assembly elections in Jharkhand can be held in October, two months before the scheduled time. Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections are to be held at the same time. The process of updating and revising the voter list before the elections in these two states is going on under the same schedule, the same schedule is being followed in Jharkhand as well. On this basis, there are indications that elections in Jharkhand will be held along with these two states. Meanwhile, the high-level team of the Election Commission of India visited Jharkhand on 10 and 11 July. Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Dharmendra Sharma and Nitesh Vyas held a review meeting with the state’s Chief Election Officer K. Ravi Kumar and election officers of all 24 districts and took stock of the voter list revision and preparations of polling stations.
The commission’s team took all the necessary information
In the review meeting held in Patratu on Thursday, the Commission’s team took information one by one on topics like door-to-door voter verification, digitization, renewal of old laminated voter IDs, minimum facilities required at polling stations, settlement of public grievances and voting percentage in the Lok Sabha elections and gave necessary guidelines. Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Dharmendra Sharma and Nitesh Vyas said that pending applications related to voter registration should be settled in mission mode. He directed all the district election officials to publish error-free and updated voter lists as per the fixed schedule. Instructions were given to run special awareness campaigns to add youth, Divyangjans, women, people of PVTG category to the voter list.
New polling station inside the society
The commission said that initiatives should be taken to ensure that 100% of university and college students are registered in the voter list. All district election officers were also directed to hold meetings with political parties at regular intervals and resolve issues that arise. Senior DEC Nitesh Vyas said that in those housing societies of urban areas of the state where there are more than 500 voters, a new polling station should be set up inside the society itself. Principal Secretary of Election Commission of India Arvind Anand, Additional Chief Election Officer of Jharkhand Sandeep Singh, Additional Chief Election Officer Dr. Neha Arora were also present in the review meeting.