Aadhaar seeding gains momentum

Election Commission uploads voters’ info on its website to make the process smooth

Hyderabad: The State Election Commission is taking all steps to ensure that the process of voter ID seeding with Aadhaar goes on smoothly in Telangana. Accordingly, information of voters, who are yet to complete the process, is being uploaded on Election Commission website on a regular basis.

This will provide information to any voter, who can just log in to the website and check the present status. If he or she is yet to interlink the two cards, his name will be present on the website. Even if a voter’s name is figured in the list despite him completing the process, he can bring it to the notice of the EC officials and get the required job done.

For the convenience of voters, this data is being updated polling booth-wise in each Assembly segment of 10 districts. This was a dynamic procedure, wherein a voter’s name would be automatically taken from the list once he completed the seeding process, Additional Chief Electoral Officer of AP and Telangana Anoop Singh said.

Since the commission is hoping to complete this drive by the end of August, this list will be getting smaller and smaller in the coming days. Once the drive is over, the final list will give a clear picture of numbers of voters who has not opted for seeding in each Assembly segment. However, their names would not be deleted from the voters’ list, he clarified.

The senior official pointed out that non-linking of voter ID with Aadhaar was not a ground for deletion of names from voters’ list. But the commission has appealed to every voter, whose name is already enrolled in Aadhaar card to respond to the drive. Even special enrolment centres are being set up in big numbers to facilitate individuals who do not possess Aadhaar card until now.

By Mahesh Avadhutha