A door-to-door voters' verification process will be kicked off in Rawalpindi district from today. According to the Rawalpindi District Election Commissioner office, arrangements for the drive have been finalized and efforts would be made to complete the verification campaign by April 30. Earlier, the campaign was scheduled to be started from December 15 but, it was postponed.
At the moment, there are over 2.95 million voters registered in Rawalpindi district including 1.57 million men and 1.37 women. The new voters would be registered and the names of the people who have died will be removed from the electoral list. As many as 29 assistant registration officers and 2,221 verification officers have been assigned the task. Sources told APP on Sunday that the first phase of the drive, verification of new NIC holders and deceased voters would be completed during January 15 to February 8.
Data entry of verified new NIC holders and deceased voters and adjustment of affected census blocks at district level with the assistance of NADRA (if required) would be completed within 10 days from February 9 to 18. Data processing and printing of updated electoral rolls would be completed within 15 days from February 19 to March 5 while the verified voters' lists would be displayed at the display centres to be set up at prominent places including offices of registration officers, offices of assistant registration officers and display centers at circle level in the district for around a month from March 6 to April 4.
The 40-day would be given from March 6 to April 14 for disposal of claims/objections and applications for corrections which can be submitted until April 14. The final lists would be displayed on April 30 at the office of District Election Commissioner. During the campaign, special focus would also be on registration of women, persons with disabilities and transgender.