Nagpur District Collector Vipin Itankar said that the administration is trying to negotiate colleges For this initiative to increase first time voter registration.
“Obviously, it will not be mandatory. We would request colleges to encourage students to register as voters. There will be two big elections, Lok Sabha and state assembly elections next year, and these students will be eligible to vote,” Itankar said.
The district administration is expected to register one lakh new voters. The entire month of June will see ‘pre-revision activities’ wherein the electoral roll will be updated.
“We held a meeting with political parties today and also informed them to take this campaign to the grassroots level. Our job is to ensure that the voter list should be updated at the best possible level,” Dr. Eatonkar said. “This means adding new voters, deleting those who are dead, updating details etc,” he said.
As per the new guidelines, each polling station will now have an average of 1,500 voters as compared to around 1,200 earlier. Itankar said, “Our endeavor will be to ensure that voters get a booth within 2 km radius of their registered address.”