Telangana cleans up voter rolls: 30,000 duplicates deleted via ERONET; voter ID-Aadhaar link hits 67%, says CEO C Sudarshan Reddy
HYDERABAD: Telangana chief electoral officer C Sudarshan Reddy on Tuesday said that around 30,000 duplicate voters were deleted across the state as part of a voter list verification using Electoral Roll Officers' Network (ERONET) data from the
Election Commission of India
.
In all, 58,000 duplicate records were identified both within constituencies in Telangana and across states, particularly in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Digital integration
"Booth level officers (BLOs) conducted house-to-house verification. Out of 58,000 duplicate entries, 30,000 were deleted. Voters found residing in Telangana were not touched," he said.
Coordination is underway with AP and TN. Reddy said the ECI is introducing a cap of 1,200 voters per polling station.
A mobile phone deposit facility will be made available at polling stations.
Campaign booth distance will also be reduced from 200 metres to 100 metres. "Polling stations will be set up inside residential welfare associations and high-rise buildings. The polling station radius will be reduced from 2 km to 1 km," he said. The ECI is integrating its voter list system with the Registrar General of India to enable automatic deletion of deceased voters, he said.
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"This linkage will be routed through the CEO's office to district-level birth and death registrars," he said. Reddy said the ECI's new digital platform, ECINET, will combine 40 applications and services under a single portal.
Aadhaar Linkage
He said voter ID-Aadhaar linkage in rural areas of Telangana has reached 84% while the overall linkage in the state was 67%. Around one lakh BLOs and Booth Level Agents (BLAs) across India will be trained.
"Twenty-six BLOs from Telangana will be trained at IIIDEM, Delhi. Monthly review meetings with state CEOs are also being held," he said.
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