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Wednesday, February 12 2025
Mangaluru

District administration launches help desk to assist voters

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Mangalore : The DK District Administration has formed a committee under the presidentship of ZP CEO to enlighten and educate voters on the importance of exercising franchise under the SVEEEP (systematic voters education and electoral participation plan).  A help desk will be started in every gram panchayat, TMCs, town panchayat, tahsildar’s office and Mangalore City Corporation to help the voters to ascertain if their names are on the electoral roll, the DC informed.

 

 

Informing this to reporters here on March 20, Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner N Prakash said 
those who have been issued an election photo identity card can verify if their names are found on the voters’ list by visiting the website of the Chief Election Officer, Bangalore, o www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in

On the  complaints from people that their names did not figure in the voters’ list in the recently concluded elections to urban local bodies, the DC said mere possessing of EPIC is no guarantee that one can vote in elections. The final voters’ list for Dakshina Kannada district has been published. “People have to verify if their names figure in the latest list at the respective offices of the block level officer, village accountants, taluk offices, offices of the assistant commissioner and Mangalore City Corporation.

Those voters who find their names missing in  the list, can get in touch with the respective offices and seek inclusion of their names using form 6 under the continuous updating of the voters’ list.
The citizens can also register their name online in the chief election officer’s website, he said.

There will be an awareness drive throughout the district, informed Zilla Panchayat CEO Dr K N Vijayaprakash. A campaign with special importance to youth and women will be organized in the district. Handbills will be distributed in colleges, hostels, educational institutions, hospitals, bus terminuses and other prominent places.  Informative stickers will also be pasted on buses and autorickshaws, he informed. Theatres will be asked to show slide on the issue, he informed.

Commissioner of MCC Dr Harish Kumar, Additional DC Dayanand and others were present.

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