The Dharwad District Administration is all set to publish the final electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on October 27, and so far, a total of 13,53,946 names have been included in the draft electoral rolls for the seven Assembly constituencies in the district.
Addressing presspersons in Dharwad on Friday, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dharwad district Geetha C.D. said that the draft rolls, published on August 24, comprised 6,75,857 male voters, 6,78,023 female voters and 66 voters in the other category.
House-to-house visits were conducted by Booth Level Officers from June 30 to August 17 to distribute enumeration forms and collect completed forms, as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India and the revised schedule issued by the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka, she said.
Data as per draft rolls
As per the draft rolls, Hubballi-Dharwad West Constituency has the highest number of names at 2,17,195, followed by Hubballi-Dharwad Central (2,04,314), Dharwad (1,93,578), Navalgund (1,93,334), Kalghatgi (1,86,766), Hubballi-Dharwad East (1,81,334) and Kundgol (1,77,425).
A total of 1,707 polling stations have been identified in the district with the approval of the Election Commission.
70,844 applications received
Ms. Geetha said that between June 16 and October 14, they received 70,844 applications across the seven Assembly constituencies, which included 26,872 applications of Form 6, 76 of Form 6A, 4,376 of Form 7 and 39,520 of Form 8.
Ms. Geetha said the district had 14,316 voters in the 18-19 age group, comprising 7,868 males and 6,448 females and urged young voters to verify whether their names had been included in the electoral rolls. Eligible voters could apply for enrolment, corrections and raise objections using the prescribed forms, she added.
She said special voter registration drives were held on August 29 and 30 and September 19 and 20 to encourage enrolment and facilitate the applications for new registrations, the inclusion of names, corrections and objections.
47,978 notices issued
As of October 16, a total of 47,978 notices were prepared and issued across the seven constituencies, and the process of serving the notices to the concerned persons and conducting hearings was under way, she said.
She said that the scrutiny and disposal of claims and objections would continue till October 22, and subsequently the final electoral rolls would be published on October 27.
After the press conference, Ms. Geetha held a meeting with representatives of various political parties to discuss the revision of electoral rolls.
Assistant Commissioner Prabhavathi Fakirpur, Zilla Panchayat Deputy Secretary Mallikarjun Todalabagi and Electoral Registration Officers of the Assembly constituencies were present.