Noida voters to get ‘smarter’ voter ID cards
24 Jan 2014 12:18 AM GMT
In a major electoral reform, more than 1 lakh voters in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh will get coloured voter ID cards as they will go to cast their ballots in the Lok Sabha polls this year. Unlike the usual black and white cards, the new, smarter cards will have a clear, coloured photograph of the voter.
A total of 1,26,562 people had applied for the voter ID cards out of which the election office has selected 97,068 people for the ‘Smart Voter I-cards’. In Noida, 46,753 will get the new, improved smarter voter ID cards.
Rakesh Kumar Yadav, SDM, Dadri said, ‘The idea behind introducing the Smart Voter ID cards is that the existing ones are of poor quality and the photographs are hardly visible which makes the identification of the real voter a problem. The new voter ID cards are trendy and of good quality and coloured so that the person could be easily identified.’
The election officials had received 48,366 applications, but had to reject 16,130 duplicate voters including migrant voters. 10 per cent of the total number of new registrations are first time voters. In Noida, there is a total of 4,72,438 registered voters.
The list of the voters will be out on 31 January and the block level officials will start distributing the voter I-cards from February.
Yadav informed on the occassion of the National Voters Day on January 25, an awareness program will be organised where voter ID cards will be given to some first time voters.
‘Casting vote is a duty of every citizen and we will make voters aware of their rights and how they should cast it without getting influenced.’
A total of 1,26,562 people had applied for the voter ID cards out of which the election office has selected 97,068 people for the ‘Smart Voter I-cards’. In Noida, 46,753 will get the new, improved smarter voter ID cards.
Rakesh Kumar Yadav, SDM, Dadri said, ‘The idea behind introducing the Smart Voter ID cards is that the existing ones are of poor quality and the photographs are hardly visible which makes the identification of the real voter a problem. The new voter ID cards are trendy and of good quality and coloured so that the person could be easily identified.’
The election officials had received 48,366 applications, but had to reject 16,130 duplicate voters including migrant voters. 10 per cent of the total number of new registrations are first time voters. In Noida, there is a total of 4,72,438 registered voters.
The list of the voters will be out on 31 January and the block level officials will start distributing the voter I-cards from February.
Yadav informed on the occassion of the National Voters Day on January 25, an awareness program will be organised where voter ID cards will be given to some first time voters.
‘Casting vote is a duty of every citizen and we will make voters aware of their rights and how they should cast it without getting influenced.’
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