BY J.R.PRASAD
Hyderabad, Nov. 17: Residents of the city can now enrol in the voters’ list at nearest post office. The Chief Electoral Officer, Mr I.V. Subba Rao, said on Monday that post offices in and around Hyderabad would be the permanent venues for registration or revision of names in the voters list.
The Election Commission (EC) has entered into an agreement with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation on Monday to implement this pilot project in 216 post offices in Hyderabad. "This facility would be more helpful to citizens of the state capital," said Mr Subba Rao. "We are implementing this on experimental basis."
In order to make this project a success, the EC had given adequate training to 1,200 postal staff. Any person who will be aged 18 by January 1, 2009, can enrol as a voter by going to the post office and filling up the Form-6. Voter identity card would be sent to the person by post within a month. If the experiment succeeds, it is likely to implemented in other urban centres of the state.
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