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PANAJI
Election Commissioner of India, Ashok Lavasa reviewed the quality and health of electoral roll, preparedness for Special Summary Revision 2020 and progress of the Elector Verification Programme during his brief visit to Goa.
The Chief Electoral Officer Kunal; Collector North, R Menaka; Collector South, Ajit Roy; Additional CEO, Narayan Sawant; Jt CEO Devidas Gaonkar, and other officials participated in the review meeting.
Highlighting the purpose of the Elector Verification Programme Lavasa emphasised that EVP has been launched from September 1 to October 15 to improve the health of electoral rolls with people’s participation and augment enrolment of all eligible citizens during special summary revision of the electoral rolls. He stated that, being a small and highly literate State, Goa has all the potential to have 100 per cent enrolment of all eligible voters. He also called upon the officials to see that no person in age group of 18 to 19 years remain unregistered as electors.
He called upon the District Election Officers cum Collectors of the districts to approach all educational institutions to encourage them to see that every student above the age of 18 as on 01/01/2020 is registered as voter and certify that their Educational Institution has 100% voter enrolment. Goa can declare itself as 100% voter enrolment in all educational institutions.
He advised the officers to work at micro level to fulfill the target. To achieve the said target, he urged to refer Census Report of 2011 and compare micro level data for possible gaps in enrolment.
Lavasa stressed the need to create more awareness for successful Elector Verification Programme.
Lavasa also released ‘UPSUM’ Coffee Table Book prepared by the Office of Chief Electoral Officer on the occasion.
Earlier, Lavasa presented Elector Verification Programme “Verification Certificates” to Frederika Jose Menezes, Fulrani S. Kinlekar, Bachi Devi Yadav, Ramchandra P Chavan, Ruthik Narvekar, Kumari Asha Harijan.
Chief Electoral Officer, Kunal made a presentation on progress of current status of Electoral Roll, Plan and Preparedness status of Special Summary Revision and Elector Verification Programme and their current status.
The CEO Goa informed that the machinery has been geared up for success of the programme with innovative use of social media for voter education and paperless conduct of entire exercise with active participation of voters as voters in Goa are highly educated and adoption of modern technology is prevalent.
The electors will be motivated to use Voter Helpline app and nvsp.in portal of Election Commission of India for this exercise. The services of Citizen Service Centres will also be used for this exercise in addition to active involvement of Booth Level Officers.
