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          KUPWARAOCTOBER 05: District Election Officer (DEO) Kupwara, Khalid Jahangir, today chaired a meeting to review the preparedness regarding the smooth and hassle-free conduct of elections to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).
 The meeting discussed threadbare all arrangements put in place, essential and integral measures taken and necessary precautions to be ensured during the electoral process.
          DEO said that every official concerned with the elections shall endeavour to facilitate the participation of the people particularly youth and ensure enabling environment towards strengthening grass-roots democratic institutions.
           He directed the concerned to ensure safe transportation of EVMs to polling centres and back to strong rooms, checking seals of EVMs and sealing of strong rooms.
He said that the staff of the Revenue Department particularly those officers deployed for magisterial duties have the responsibility to forge cooperation with other departments for the successful conduct of the elections.
 He urged the concerned to strictly follow the already laid out election plan and work in coordination and synergy for the smooth conduct of elections in the district.
 The meeting was attended by SSPs of Kupwara and Handwara, ADC Kupwara and Handwara, ASP Kupwara, District Information Officer, Returning Officers, all Nodal Officers, AROs, Zonal and Sectoral Magistrates, officers from ITBP, CRPF, CAPF, BSF, Tehsildarsof Kupwara and Handwara, ARTO Kupwara and other concerned.


KUPWARASEPTEMBER 24:  District Election Officer (DEO) Kupwara, Khalid Jahangir, today convened a meeting of Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers to review the arrangements put in place for smooth conduct of ensuing Municipal Elections in the district.
The meeting was attended by SSP Kupwara, Sriram Ambarkar, SSP Handwara, ADDC Kupwara, ADC Handwara, SDM Lolab, SDM Tangdar Dr Ilyas and other concerned. 
The meeting discussed threadbare the arrangements made with regard to security, establishment of Control Rooms, distribution and collection of EVMs, randomization of poll staff, transport plan, training of staff and other related issues.
On the occasion, DEO urged officers to be impartial and ensure the conduct of Municipal Elections in a smooth manner in the district.
He directed the ARTO Kupwara to prepare a transport plan for the election process and submit it to DC Office by September 25. He also said that strengthening of grassroots democracy will help the district administration in carrying forward the developmental activities in the district. 
Speaking on the occasion, both the SSPs of Kupwara and Handwara assured their full support from the security point of view to ensure free, fair and transparent election in the district.


Municipal Polls-2018
GANDERBAL, SEPTEMBER 24: The District Election Officer (DEO), Ganderbal, Dr. Piyush Singla today reviewed the security arrangements to be made for the conduct of Municipal Elections – 2018 in the district. 
The meeting was attended by SSP Ganderbal, ADC Ganderbal, all ROs, AROs, officers of Army and Police department, besides other officers of district Administration.
Threadbare discussions were held regarding security action plan to be put forth during the election process in the meeting.
The security agencies assured foolproof security arrangements for the candidates and voters will be put in place to ensure smooth and incident free elections in the district.
Further the DEO directed all the concerned to work according to the directions issued by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to ensure smooth and fair elections in the district.

UDHAMPUR, SEPTEMBER 20: District Election Officer, Udhampur  Ravinder Kumar today informed that the nomination papers of the contesting candidates in the district for upcoming ULB polls shall be submitted in the office of RO/ARO.
 The DEO further said that a total of 55 ROs and AROs have been appointed for completing the election process for one Municipal Council and two Municipal Committees of the district and there are 68 polling stations established at different locations of 41 wards for 35,519 voters to cast their vote.

          LEH, SEPTEMBER 18: District Election Officer (DEO) Leh, AvnyLavasa, today appointed Administrator, Municipal Committee, Leh, Rigzin Spalgon as Assistant Returning Officer (ARO, Headquarters).
          As per the order issued here, the newly appointed ARO shall receive nomination papers on behalf of all Returning Officers for Municipal Elections and transfer the same to the concerned ROs on a daily basis.

DODA, SEPTEMBER 17: District Election Officer (Deputy Commissioner) Doda Simrandeep Singh today discussed the activity plan for Urban Local Body elections here at a meeting of Nodal Officers, Returning Officers, Assistant Returning Officers, EROs, AEROs and Zonal Sector Magistrates.
The meeting was also attended by the Additional Deputy Commissioner Doda, Additional Deputy commissioner Bhaderwah, CEO BDA and ACR.
The District Election Officer impressed upon the concerned officers to strictly adhere to the schedule and guidelines duly issued by the CEO J&K regarding Municipal Election 2018.
On the occasion, the DEO also nominated Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers for different wards of the district.

RAMBAN, SEPTEMBER 17: District Election Officer (DEO) Ramban, Showkat Aijaz Bhat today reviewed the preparedness for Urban Local Bodies (Municipal and Panchayat Elections) 2018 here at a meeting of civil and police   officers.
The meeting discussed in detail the requirement of manpower, randomization, communication plan, expenditure monitoring committee, material management and transport plan besides security arrangements, law and order issues, enforcement of modal code of conduct, duty of zonal and sectoral magistrates and observers.
The DEO said all the officers and employees deem themselves attached to the Election Commission and ensure timely response of any information. 
The Nodal Officers of various committees were directed to   work according to the directions issued by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to ensure smooth and fair conduct of elections
The DEO directed the ROs to inspect polling stations to ensure all necessary arrangements including special arrangement for the convenience specially abled voters. He also informed that the administration will arrange webcasting of polling.
The SSP gave details about security plan envisaged for incident free election process.
The DEO also stressed on spreading awareness among the voters.
Meanwhile, a training programme for Returning Officers (ROs) and Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) was conducted in which District Level Master Trainers imparted necessary tips to ROs and AROs.

BANDIPORA, MAY 28: According to Dy District Election Officer (DEO) Bandipora, the 2nd phase of training programme regarding the use of ERO-NET for ERO's, AERO's, Supervisors and BLO's will be held on May 30, May 31 and June 02, 2018, at 11 am.
As per the schedule, the training programme for 9-Gurez and 10-Bandipora will be held on May 30 and May 31, 2018 respectively at Meeting Hall DC Office Bandipora. The training for 11-Sonawari has been scheduled to be held on June 02, 2018 at Block Development Office Sumbal.
All the concerned have been asked to attend the training programme as per scheduled date, time and venue.



Kohima, Feb 16: Nagaland Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Abhijit Sinha has said that under the theme of ECI ‘No Voter to be left behind,’ the Election Department has been pursuing all eligible citizens and residents of Nagaland to be registered in the Electoral Roll and to enable them to cast vote in the ensuing Assembly elections scheduled on February 27.
According to a release issued by media cell of CEO today said in a memo, Mr Sinha said, the 8th National Voters’ Day also was celebrated on January 25 last under the theme ‘Accessible Elections’ wherein the first time registered voters including 41 millennium voters (those who born on January 1, 2000) across Nagaland were felicitated. 
Mr Sinha said the first time the department has identified Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) of different categories in the electoral roll like locomotors disability, speech & hearing disability, visually impaired and others. They shall be given priority entries in polling stations to cast vote without waiting in queues. 
Even other unidentified PwD voters shall be given priority entries provided they produce Disability Id Cards to the presiding officers. Also octogenarian and older voters, pregnant women voters identified by Anganwadi workers and women voters with babies in arms shall be given precedence over other voters for casting votes, he said. 
Mr Sinha said people of Nagaland has seen unprecedented campaigns carried out in 
favour of free and fair election popularly called as ‘Clean Election Campaigns’ in recent past where various churches bodies, NGOs and students’ organizations have held rallies, adopting resolutions and pledges. 
"The Department is hopeful that, with support and cooperation of all stakeholders, we can improve our performance this time. The future voter students of classes 9 to 12 are appealing their parents or guardians to exercise their franchises responsibly through ethical and informed ballot decisions on day of poll," he said.
The ECI targets to increase the qualitative participation of the electorate in terms of ethical and informed voting and of providing continuous electoral and democracy education to the people so that electoral malpractices and corrupt practices including inducement of voters and resorting to use of muscle and liquor influences by candidates and political parties in electioneering are done away with. 
The Voters should abstain from inducement like cash, gift, liquor or community feast 
organized for campaign purpose during election process as the receiver is also punishable with one year imprisonment and fine under Section 171B of Indian Penal Code. 
The Voters may collect evidence of malpractices, capture such photos, videos, audios of malpractices and to upload on DEO’s website or CEO’s website and the control room or inform authorities by any other means confidentially so that action may be taken against such malpractices. 
"In view of above, we appeal the people of Nagaland to consider the available options and participate in this election in a free and fair manner so that our democracy is strengthened, the CEO added. UNI


GHSS Seri Wins District-Level Quiz
RAJOURI, DECEMBER 02: A day-long district level Quiz competition was organized by the district election authorities here at the Deputy Commissioner’s office complex premises amongst 28 students of 14 Higher Secondary Schools of Rajouri district, on Saturday.
The Quiz was organized by the Rajouri district election authorities, under the direction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), in an attempt to create awareness about the Indian election system and function of democracy in the country besides engaging the young students in the age-group of 14-17 years-the future voters, in a self-learning exercise about the electoral process so as to build an aware and informed electorate in near future.
District Election Officer, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary had set up a Committee comprising Dy DEO, Dy Registrar Cooperatives, DSWO and Principal DIET to steer the entire exercise of conduct of Quiz. The test was evaluated by a team of lecturers from DIET Rajouri.
Divum Singh and Rohit Sharma of Government Higher Secondary School Seri won the Quiz while Chakshu Mehta & Nimra Miza of Himalayan Education Mission Rajouri and Robin Sharma & Ajay Kumar of Government Boys Model Higher Secondary School Rajouri remained as 1st and 2nd runner-ups, respectively. The winning team at the district level will be sent to Jammu by the district election authorities to take part in the State-level ECI Quiz competition.
Avtar Singh Chib, Additional District Development Commissioner, Shrikant Susé, Deputy District Election Officer, Waqar Talib, District Nodal Officer SVEEP and Inderjeet Singh Principal DIET attended the prize distribution ceremony. ADDC and Dy DEO distributed certificates of participation among participants and felicitated the winning team.

The District Round at the District HQs has been conducted by DEO's office for selecting the School Team representing the District at the State level. The State Round at the State HQs shall be conducted by CEO's office for selecting the School Team representing the State at the Zonal level. The Semi Finals and Final shall be conducted at New Delhi under the supervision of ECI.


ANANTNAG, NOVEMBER 30: Commissioner Secretary Revenue Department, Shahid today convened a meeting at Dak Bungalow, Khannabal to review the progress of the special summary revision of electoral rolls.
Inayatullah, who is also Electoral Roll Observer for Anantnag was briefed by District Election Officer, Mohammad Younis Malik in detail about account of the status of claims and objections, updation of the database and the EPIC status, registration through ERONET and other details.
It was given out that 6 EROs and 12 AEROs have been appointed for the special summary revision of electoral rolls. Detailing further, the DEO said that 510282 electors have been registered against the population of 1078692 of Census 2011.
As many as 10718 voters are falling in the age bracket of 18-19 years, while as 8121 voters are above 80 years of AGE. Besides, it was said that the draft electoral roll has the gender elector ratio of 938 against 927 of 2011 Census.
So far, under Form-6, an addition of 6444 has been made while as under Form-7, 3668 are the deletions. 2849 corrections have been made under Form 8 while, a migration of 277 has been registered under Form-8A by 29th of November, 2017, the meeting was told.
The DEO said that 121 duplications were detected by the software and 9 have been deleted following the field verification."
He said that 13572 claims have been received so far, out of which 8641 have been verified and accepted and 50 claims have been rejected. Still, 2317 claims are under process for which 780 BLOs are on the job to verify them.
Regarding EPIC coverage, the meeting was informed that the district has registered 95.58% electors under EPIC. The DEO said that thrust is being laid on coverage of nomadic and migrant voters, which have been left out so far. The DEO said that 656 booth level officers were given training regarding the use of Election Commission of India launched ERONET application.
With respect to registering the voters of 18-19 years of age, the Commissioner Secretary asked the Chief Education Officer to ensure the 100% registration of the new voters by involving the heads of the educational institutions in the SVEEP activity. He also directed the AEROs to ensure the door-to-door survey besides, mass awareness of the public about the significance of registration process.
The Roll Observer hailed the efforts put in by the election machinery of the district in uploading the data on ERONET. Besides, he expressed satisfaction over the establishment of call centre at the district headquarter which can be contacted on toll-free No: 18001807054.
The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner, ACR, SDMs of Pahalgam, Bijbehara, Kokernag and Dooru, Chief Education Officer, Deputy DEO, District Informatics Officer and all Tehsildars of the district.
 
UDHAMPUR, NOVEMBER-06  The district election cell today organised a two day training programme to sensitize Supervisors and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) regarding the use of ERO-NET- a newly introduced web-based application for election related activities.
             District Development Commissioner, Udhampur, Ravinder Kumar who is also District Election Officer (DEO) was the chief guest and inaugurated the training programme.  
            The first day of the training programme was held in two sessions for the BLOs and supervisors of Tehsil Udhampur, Panchari and Moungri. The training was conducted through video and power-point presentations in which the participants were explained about various steps involved in the ERO NET including online processing of forms.
            Speaking on the occasion, District election Officer said that ERO-NET has been developed by Election Commission of India (ECI) to achieve the objectives under Unified National Photo Electoral Roll database and to ensure effective implementation of ECI mandate of ‘No Voter to be left behind’.
            Highlighting the objectives of training programme, he impressed upon the officials to take keen interest in learning the operating procedure of the web based portal to avoid problems in the future. 
 The DEO said that the role of BLOs in the process of purification of electoral is very important. He called upon BLOs and supervisors to maintain close coordination for better results.

 The inaugural function was attended by   Assistant Commissioner Revenue, Subhash Dogra, Deputy District Election Officer, Sapna Kotwal, AEROs of Udhampur, Panchari & Moungri were present on the occasion.