Around 1.40 lakh new electorate have been added to the Gurugram district rolls since the previous Lok Sabha elections in May 2014, registering an increase of over 15%. The final electoral rolls for the current year ahead of the upcoming elections is likely to be published by the month-end.
According to the district administration, the total number of electorates for Gurugram district stood at 10,64,351 as on September 1, 2018. However, 24,465 new electorates were added and 3,179 names deleted during the revision of the electoral rolls from September 1, 2018, to January 8, 2019, with qualifying date being January 1, 2019.
Election Tehsildar Sant Lal said that the total number of electorates as per the final electoral rolls for 2019 would be 10,85,637 against 9,43,110 for 2014 registering an increase of 1,42,527.
The maximum number of 15,356 electorates were added to the Badshapur Assembly constituency in the district, followed by Gurgaon (4,480), Pataudi (2,467) and Sohna (2,162).
Similarly, a maximum of 1,334 names were deleted in Sohna Assembly constituency followed by Badshapur (924), Gurgaon (730) and Pataudi (191) on account of death or shifting of the electorates.
A total of 2,177 Form 8 applications were received for corrections, but 546 were rejected. Besides, 1,443 Form 8A requests were received for change in address due to shifting within the same constituency. The maximum of 736 such forms were received in the Badshahpur Assembly constituency followed by Gurgaon (641) and Sohna (60). However, only six such requests were received for Pataudi, a Scheduled Caste reserved Assembly constituency.
“The requests received for fresh voter identity cards after the completion of the revision process will be taken up after the publication of the final electoral rolls. The process of continuous updation of the electoral rolls will continue till the day of filing of nominations for Lok Sabha elections,” said Mr. Lal.
Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh told The Hindu that around 1,73,000 entries with similar names and father’s name were physically verified by the Block Level Officers during the revision, but none was found to be duplicate. Similarly, 11,387 “identical entries” were weeded out by the software for uncanny visual resemblance and were being physically verified. A single line voter helpline number — 1950 — is operational from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the mini-secretariat to seek any information related to the voter identity cards.
Mr. Singh said an awareness campaign would also be kicked off on January 25, the National Voters’ Day, to educate the electorate about the use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail in the EVMs. “This time VVPAT would be used in all the 90 Assembly constituencies during Lok Sabha election.”