Sri Vijaya Puram, Oct. 29: A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Electoral Officer (i/c), A&N Islands, Shri Kale Amit Marutirao, IAS, in the Conference Hall of SVPMC today with the all recognized Political Parties and media persons in connection with Special Summary Revision of Photo Electoral Roll-2025 and the publication of Integrated Draft Electoral Roll-2025. The Deputy CEO, Shri Vinayak Chamadia, IAS and Electoral related Officers were also present during the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, the CEO informed that the Draft Electoral Roll was published today (Oct.29). The period for claims and objection starts from Oct. 29 till Nov. 28, 2024. Special Campaigns will be in held all 411 Polling Stations on Nov. 9, 10, 23 & 24, 2024 and disposal of claims and objections will be done on Dec.24, 2024. The checking of health parameters and updating data base and printing of supplements will be done by Jan.1, 2025 and the publication of final electoral roll will be on Jan.6, 2025. He further informed that as per the Draft Electoral Roll, 2025, there are 3,12,247 electors,1,62,081 male electors, 1,50,163 female electors and 3 third gender electors. The Gender Ratio is 926 and EP Ratio is 721. The percentage of EPIC Coverage is 99.39% and there are 411 Polling Stations.
The CEO also appealed to the Political Parties to appoint Booth Level Agents (BLA) for each Polling Station who would be associated with Booth Level Officers(BLO) during the revision period for identifying any missed out eligible voters, change of residential address of voters, updation of voter’s details besides encouraging eligible citizens who is going to attain the age of eighteen years on any of the subsequent qualifying dates to file for inclusion of names in the electoral rolls for purification of Electoral Roll.
The Draft Electoral Roll 2025 was also shared with the Political Parties present in the meeting. The Political Parties also put forth their suggestions and their doubts were cleared during the meeting.