Citizens urged to make use of enrolment drive

Hyderabad: The District Election Officer (DEO) and Commissioner of GHMC, M Dana Kishore, on Friday appealed to the residents of municipal area to utilise the opportunity to verify their names and to enroll new voters during the special campaign organised on Sunday at all the polling booths in the city. Further, the citizens can also call on toll-free no. 1950 for information, suggestions, feedback and complaints about elections.

The DEO held a review meeting with the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) of 15 Assembly Constituencies of Hyderabad district and reviewed the progress of election related works. The EROs apprised him of the work being done viz., verification of voter lists, field verification of new enrollment applications, and re-verification of deleted voters.The DEO instructed the EROs to personally inspect the verification done by the AEROs, supervisors etc duly following the procedure given by the Election Commission. 

Dana Kishore said he would personally inspect 2 per cent on verification done by the EROs as per instructions given by the Commission.The DEO said the Special Observers would inspect 20 percent of polling booths and verify the progress of work and instructed the EROs to personally inspect the voter list where there is abnormal enrollment or deletions.
  
Amra Pali Kata, Joint CEO, Musharaf Ali, Addl. Commissioner, IT, D Jayaraj Kennedy, Addl Commissioner, Elections, S Pankaja, Joint Commissioner, elections, senior officials of the election wing and EROs of 15 Assembly Constituencies of Hyderabad District participated in the meeting.