Summary revision of electoral rolls in Prakasam district from July 21: Collector

Prakasam district to conduct month-long summary revision of electoral rolls from July 21. Final publication of roll on Jan 5, 2024. House-to-house survey by booth-level officers with new mobile app. Focus on enrolling youth, tribal groups & women. All above 18 enrolled as voters, 17 as 'prospective voters'. Special drive to enrol Chenchu tribals in Nallamalla forests. Aim to create 'healthy' roll by removing migrated & deceased persons, duplicate entries. Strict action against erring officers. Pictures & mobiles of electors updated. Correct serialisation of houses & electors arranged. TDP alleges data collected by AP govt used by ruling party's media firm to delete Opposition sympathisers' names.

A month-long summary revision of electoral rolls will be taken up from July 21 across Prakasam district, according to District Collector and District Election Officer A.S. Dinesh Kumar.

Addressing the media here on Wednesday, he said the final publication of the electoral roll would be done on January 5, 2024.

The house-to-house survey will be conducted by booth-level officers with a new versatile mobile app in all the 2,178 polling stations with a special focus on enrolling youth, particularly vulnerable tribal groups and women till August 21, he said.

All persons who are above 18 years of age will be enrolled as voters, and those who crossed 17 years will be registered as ‘‘prospective voters’‘. The surveyors will go to educational institutions for this purpose, he said.

A special drive would be taken up to enrol the Chenchu tribals who live in remote hamlets in the Nallamalla forests, as a sizeable number of them remain unenrolled, he said.

The purpose of the survey was to prepare a ‘‘healthy’‘ electoral roll by identifying the gaps to remove all migrated and deceased persons and delete duplicate entries, including photographically similar entries, from the roll.