The final electoral rolls based on January 1st, 2023 will be published on Thursday after the Election Commission of India (ECI) has given approval to the state election department.
The Election department sources said that the special summary revision of electoral rolls with qualifying date on January 1st, 2023 as the qualifying date has started on November9th, 2022 with publication of draft electoral rolls. After completion of the stipulated period for inclusion, deletion and correction of electoral rolls, the ECI has accorded approval for final publication of electoral rolls.
The claims and objections period commenced from November 9th, 2022 and was fixed up to 8th December,2022. Considering the enthusiasm among the common people in order to enroll their names, the period was extended for seven more days up to December 15th ,2022 .
The State Election department sources said that the EROs and AEROs have completed the disposal of all the claims and objections by December26th, 2022 and duly updated the electoral roll database through ERO Net.
After completion of updation work, electoral roll data along with analysis and outcome of special summary revision exercise were submitted to ECI for its consideration. Based on this, the ECI has accorded approval for final publication of electoral rolls on January 5th.
After publication, the applicants and all other stakeholders will be able to see final rolls-2023 in all the polling stations, designated locations, SDM Offices, DM Offices, Tehsil Offices etc. Now the work of printing of EPIC is going on for the newly enrolled electors which will be handed over to them in due course.