Guwahati: The Election
Commission of India on Tuesday said it would complete linking of Aadhaar
numbers with voter photo identity cards across the country, except North East,
by August this year.
"By May, the Southern states
of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Goa will complete the
linking. This will be first time in India. This will completely eliminate
duplication of 85 crore Indian voters," Chief Election Commissioner H S
Brahma told reporters here.
The linking of the two cards was
expected to clear 6-8 percent duplication in the electoral rolls, he said.
Referring to the Assembly polls
in Assam next year, he said the EC has initiated the process to update the
voter list.
"The Assembly polls in Assam
are due before May 2016. In any election, the first allegation against the
Election Commission is about the non-purified rolls. So before one year, we
start purifying the electoral rolls," he said.
The agency's updating process is
an ongoing work with addition, deletion and correction of the data in voters
list, he added.
"In Assam, 95 percent of the
1.9 crore voters have been issued photo identity cards. By July, we will issue
cards to all the voters," Brahma said, adding the agency would ensure that
there would be no duplication of voters.
He said the ECI had launched a
portal in January this year for the voters updating and correcting the
information themselves.
India
News Desk
