Jammu: The Election Fee (EC) has introduced a complete scheme for Kashmiri migrants to train their franchise within the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, persevering with with the previous observe of voting via postal ballots and particular polling stations in Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi.
The scheme is supposed for all of the voters of the Baramulla, Srinagar and Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary constituencies in Kashmir who had migrated due to compelling circumstances and are quickly residing in numerous locations exterior their locations of odd residence, an official spokesperson stated on Saturday.
He stated the EC has issued two notifications, categorising the Kashmiri migrants as “specified” and “notified” voters.
The Lok Sabha polls in Jammu and Kashmir shall be held in 5 phases — on April 19 (Udhampur) and April 26 (Jammu) within the Jammu area, and on Might 7 (Anantnag-Rajouri), Might 13 (Srinagar) and Might 20 (Baramulla) in Kashmir. The counting of votes shall be taken up on June 4.
The spokesperson stated 26 particular polling stations — 21 in Jammu, one in Udhampur and 4 in Delhi — shall be arrange for the Kashmiri migrant voters who’re residing at numerous reduction camps and who choose to forged their votes in individual via digital voting machines.
Any migrant voter apart from those that would choose to vote in individual can avail the choice to vote via postal ballots by submitting up Kind 12C, the spokesperson stated.
All the applying types (Kind 12C) duly stuffed in, requesting for postal ballots, should attain the assistant returning officer in Jammu 10 days earlier than the date of polling in every part, the spokesperson added.
Moreover, the EC has additionally notified 4 assistant returning officers (AROs) — assistant commissioner, reduction (migrant), Jammu, assistant commissioner, panchayat, Udhampur, deputy director, horticulture, planning and advertising and marketing, Delhi, and the deputy secretary within the workplace of the resident commissioner, New Delhi — to help the returning officers of the three Lok Sabha constituencies of Kashmir within the work in regards to the “specified” and “notified” electors.
The spokesperson stated the EC has suggested the migrant voters to ship their Kind M for voting in individual at any of the “particular polling stations” or Kind 12C for utilizing postal ballots to the ARO involved in order that the paperwork attain them 10 days earlier than the polling date.
They will additionally drop their software types and in a while, their marked postal poll papers within the particular letter packing containers, which may also be out there on the places of work of all of the AROs.
Moreover, the EC has prolonged a web-based facility for the migrant voters residing at numerous locations apart from Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi to obtain Kind M and Kind 12C from the ballot panel’s web site or the Voter Providers portal.
After filling up the types, these voters shall strategy the workplace of the electoral registration officer (ERO) of the constituency the place they’re residing at the moment, anyplace within the nation, the spokesperson stated.
He stated the EROs can have entry to the small print of the migrant voters enrolled in several parliamentary constituencies (Meeting segment-wise) in Kashmir via ERO-Web.
The ERO involved, after verifying the small print in Kind M, will scan and add the identical to electronically transmit to the AROs, Migrant in Delhi, Jammu and Udhampur for additional essential motion, he stated, including that the arduous copies so uploaded shall even be despatched to the AROs, Migrant in Delhi, Jammu, and Udhampur because the case could also be.
Equally, the ERO involved will confirm the small print in Kind 12C, signal the certificates in Half-II of the shape and scan and add it to electronically transmit the identical to the ARO, Migrant in Jammu, who will take additional essential motion to ship the postal poll to the elector involved. The arduous copies so uploaded are to be despatched to the ARO, Migrant in Jammu, the spokesperson stated.
He stated the postal ballots shall be despatched via pace publish to the voters by the ARO Migrant, Jammu.
The voters can ship the polled postal ballots via pace publish to the returning officer involved of the parliamentary constituency. The price of pace publish shall be paid by the RO involved.
