The Commissioner of Jalandhar Division B Purushartha today asked the Deputy Commissioners of seven districts to embark a massive awareness campaign for making more and more people aware about the process involved in addition and deletion of names in voter list.Presiding over a meeting with the Deputy Commissioners and representatives of political parties from Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Hoshiarpur to review the ongoing summary revision of voter lists, the Divisional Commissioner said that the sole aim of drive should be to ensure that every person was made aware of this significant process to strengthen democracy at the grass-root level and make the people an active partners in the democratic set up. He said that ongoing intensive summary revision of electoral rolls, which would be completed by January 4, aims at ensuring providing fool proof mother roll for the ensuring general elections of 2019. Mr Purushartha said that every effort must be made to ensure that every eligible voter was covered by January 4 when the final revision of the roll was completed.
The Divisional Commissioner asked the Deputy Commissioners to pull up their socks for ensuring that the voter lists from the districts in the Division were best in the country. He said that apart from holding the awareness camps in district, block and booth levels, the officers must also ensure that BLOs also have regular meetings with the representatives of the political parties at the respective booths. Mr. Purushartha also asked the political parties to appoint the Booth Level Agents (BLA) for further streamlining the democratic process.The Divisional Commissioner also asked the Deputy Commissioners and the representatives of the political parties to encourage Transgender and NRIs for enrolling themselves as voters. He expressed hope that the voting percentage and voter list from all the districts in the division were the best in the entire country. Mr. Purushartha asked the Deputy Commissioners to make strenuous efforts in this direction and ensure that no stone was left unturned for it.On the occasion Deputy Commissioner Kapurthala Mr. Mohammed Tayyab, Deputy Commissioner Amritsar Mr. KS Sangha, Deputy Commissioner Hoshiarpur Ms. Isha Kalia, Deputy Commissioner Tarn Taran Mr. Pradeep Sabharwal, Deputy Commissioner Pathankot Mr. Rambir, Deputy Commissioner Gurdaspur Mr. Vipul Ujjwal, Additional Deputy Commissioner Jalandhar Mr Jasbir Singh and others were also present.