Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Dr S Karuna held a meeting with the representatives of political parties to apprise them about Special Summary Revision -2022. Dr Raju said that a special campaign for registration, deletion and correction of particulars in voter list. First time young voters who attains 18 years with qualifying date as January 1, 2022, in view of upcoming Assembly Election scheduled to be in first quarter 2022, this exercise will be extensively carried out across the state from district level, to constituency level and to right upto the booth level. He said door-to-door exercise shall be undertaken by the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) between August 9, 2021 to October 31, 2021 to further intensify the campaign and plug the existing gaps. The CEO made a presentation to the representatives of political parties thoroughly explaining about the entire process of summary revision sought their active participation in completion of special summary revision exercise. He said removal of Demographically Similar Entries (DSEs), multiple entries and logical error shall take place between August 9, 2021 to October 31, 2021. Subsequently, the draft shall be published on November 1, 2021. Period for claims and objections has been kept between November 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021. BLO Special camps shall also be held at all the polling stations on November 6, 2021, November 7, 2021, November 20, 2021 and November 21, 2021. Dr Raju specially sought participation from al the political parties in enrolling categories such as Transgender, Persons with Disability (PwDs), Overseas and Service Voters. He encouraged political parties to identify and appoint Booth Level Agents (BLA) for each polling station who would support the respective BLOs in the revision exercise. The CEO also apprised them about various IT initiatives taken by the ECI. Further, they were given demonstrations of mobile applications such as Voter Helpline App and C-Vigil wich will be used extensively during conduct of election process. Representatives of all the recognized state and national political parties attended the meeting.
