“Some voters in the recently-held Lok Sabha elections were deprived of their right to vote. Names of some people remained in the electoral list despite their demise. To avoid these issues in coming elections, people should fill up Form number 6, form number 7 and form number 8,” appealed District Collector and District Returning Officer Dr Vipin Itankar. He was speaking to mediapersons at Collectorate premises on Friday. Because of some reasons, people failed to follow the procedure and they found their names missing from the electoral list. Form number 6 is for new voters’ registration, Form number 7 is for the deletion of names (those who died, those who have changed their addresses or those who have migrated somewhere etc). Form number 8 is for changes in names, addresses or for other reasons because of which they did not find their names in the electoral list.

 

Dr Itankar said, “District administration has taken a lot of efforts and initiatives with a thought to increase the voting percentage. We have conducted several programmes for public awareness to motivate them for voting. The names of some voters were missing, the addresses of the some voters were changed. During our home visits, we found some voters’ names were not deleted after their demise. If anyone finds any problem in on-line scrutiny, district administration is ready to help them. We will do proper planning for next polls.” Meanwhile, Dr Vipin Itankar, who is also the District Returning Officer elaborated, “All the EVM machines used for voting have been kept safe in a strong room at Kalamna under police supervision. Strict arrangements have been made at this place from the point of view of security.

 

There are six assembly constituencies each in Nagpur and Ramtek constituencies respectively.” 20 tables have been arranged for each assembly constituency respectively. For six constituencies, this number will be 120 tables for one Lok Sabha constituency. About 17 rounds of counting of votes will be enough for the result, added Dr Itankar. Although the voting rate has decreased, this time, 24, 837 more voters have exercised their franchise compared to the previous Lok Sabha elections. Collector Dr Vipin Itankar said,“The names of the voters will be included in the voter list after the official verification of the issues due to technical difficulties.” Deputy District Election Officer Praveen Mahire, District Information Officer Vinod Rapatwar were present.