Nagpur district administration asks over 2.46 lakh voters to submit pictures for voting list

NAGPUR: The district administration here has appealed to over 2.46 lakh voters to submit their photographs before June 30 for the preparation of voting list. All these voters did not have the photos on their election cards. Out of the total 42,30,388 voters across 12 assembly constituencies in Nagpur district, 2,46,928 aren’t listed in the voter list.
In a communiqué, deputy election officer Minal Kalaskar requested all these voters to cooperate with the administration by submitting their passport-size photographs with various government offices. The booth-level officers (BLOs) have been entrusted with the task of collecting the photographs from the voters.
As per the BLOs, a majority of these 2.46 lakh voters are migrants and despite visits at the mentioned addresses many times, they weren’t located. A list of such persons has been prepared and published on the official website of the administration — www.nagpur.nic.in. Copies of the list are kept at public sanitation places, tehsil, voter registration and the collector's offices.
The list of such migrant voters was also circulated among representatives of all the recognized political parties in respective talukas as well as in the city.
“Citizens whose names were omitted from the voter list should make sure they are included by visiting the website or any of the BLO offices. If they come to know about any voter on the list, they can also submit his/her colour photo to the polling station officer concerned. If the photographs are not submitted by June 30, their names will be removed from the voter list on the grounds that they are migrants,” Kalaskar said.
(Reporting by Eshika Bhargava)