Kolkata, Dec 25 || The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed a two-level verification to confirm the authenticity of the supporting identity documents of voters during the hearing session on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list starting from December 27.
The “unmapped” voters, who are the ones not having any link with the 2002 voters’ list either through “self mapping” or through “progeny mapping”, will be summoned for hearing sessions. They will have to furnish any one of the 13 identity documents as specified by the ECI to retain their names in the final voters’ list.
Sensing that there might be possibilities of forged identity documents being furnished during the hearing session, the ECI has directed a two-level verification of these documents, first by the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) concerned and the second by the District Magistrates, who are also the District Electoral Officers for the districts concerned.
“The verification of the identity documents will start soon after the end of the hearing session in the first half of January next year. In the first stage, the EROs will determine whether the identity documents are genuine or not.