Kumari Palany & Co

Extended deadline to make corrections in the voters list!

Posted on: 01/Oct/2019 12:28:48 PM
The deadline to carry out corrections required in the details given in the voters’ list has been extended by another 2 weeks.

The facility to edit and correct the errors in the voters’ list records such as name, date of birth, address, gender, photo, etc., was introduced in the 16 Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Chennai District of the state of Tamil Nadu.

The voters do the corrections themselves through 2 avenues - the internet website www.nvsp.in, and the mobile APP ‘voter helpline’.

Senior citizens and differently-abled cadre can visit the Call Centre ‘1950’  in the office of the Voter registration through the E-Service Centres and enter the Identity Number of their photos and then by showing one of the approved identity proofs can carry out the required corrections in the voters’ details.

The District Election Officials informed that 20000 individuals have carried out the above corrections as instructed so far.

Actually, the deadline for this purpose announced earlier was yesterday (30th September). However, due to public request, this has been extended by another 2 weeks.

Accordingly, the election officials have informed that the voters can undertake to carry out corrections in their voter details as above until 15th October.

The corrected details as entered by the voters will be verified by the polling booth officials in a field survey and approve the corrections. The final revised draft of the voters’ list is scheduled to be released before 15th October.

Further, the voters can carry out corrections through the special camps scheduled to be organized in the respective polling booths on 2nd, 3rd, 9th, and 10th November.