Electoral rolls for KDMC polls frozen: Official

THANE: The electoral rolls for the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) polls, to be held in October, have been frozen, according to official sources at the district election office here.

The electoral rolls for the civic elections to be held in Kalyan have been already made available to the civic corporation. The cut-off date for the same was August 1, Deputy District Election Officer Farogh Mukadam said.

She said that the population of the corporation was around 20.21 lakh and there were around 14.23 lakh eligible voters, as of January, 2015. As of August 1, 2015, there was a marginal increase in the number of voters and it would be little over 14.25 lakh, she said, and added that it would cover the four assembly constituencies of Kalyan.

The civic corporation, upon the announcement of the polls, would publish the wardwise list of eligible voters, she further said.

The revision of voters list would be undertaken across the country from October 8, 2015 to January 15, 2016. This would cover all the constituencies in the district and would in no way affect the civic elections to the KDMC, she said.

In the coming year, the election department would undertake various programmes of electorate revision and educating of voters with regard to the forthcoming elections to Thane and Ulhasnagar municipal corporations, scheduled for 2017, she said.

In the recent revision of voters list, the names of around 5.50 lakh voters had been deleted after due verification, she added.