Chennai district: 62,000 applications for voters list inclusion/correction!
Posted on: 14/Jan/2020 11:33:41 AM
62,000 citizens have applied for either inclusion of name or correction of the particulars in the voters’ list in Chennai district so far.
The draft voters’ list for the Chennai district, consisting of 16 Legislative Assembly Constituencies was released recently. There are 19,15,718 men, 19,71,966 women, and 989 other voters for a total of 38,88,673 voters.
In this status, the Election Commission has shown keenness to expedite the preparation of the final voters’ list.
To enable this objective, special camps were conducted at the polling booths on the holidays - 4th, 5th, 11th, and 12th (Saturdays and Sundays). Accordingly, during the camps, 49,674 citizens have applied for inclusion of names in the voters’ list. 767 citizens have applied for removal of names. So, a total of 62,260 citizens have applied during these camps.
It has now been announced that the final voters’ list will be prepared and is to be released during the 2nd week of February.
