Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 9: Large number of people failed to avail the benefit of special camps for voters organized in the length and breadth of the State today on the directions of Election Commission of India due to absence of Booth Level Officers and non-availability of forms and voter lists.
In some camps, either Booth Level Officers were not available or reached late in the afternoon thereby depriving the people of the final opportunity of getting their names enrolled in the voter lists. In many other camps, even the forms for carrying out necessary correction in the voter list were not available.
Those voters, who had got their names enrolled in the lists in the recent past, could not find their names in the voter lists shown to them at these special camps.
Reports said that in ITI Akhnoor, where the special camp for voters was organized, the Booth Level Officer was not available and the people were forced to wait for hours together. Though late in the afternoon, an official reached the camp but he expressed his inability to help the people in the absence of required data.
Thereafter, the people were told to visit the camp at Town Hall, Akhnoor where they submitted applications for inclusion of their names in the voter lists. However, they could not get any satisfactory reply whether the voter lists would be updated and they would be able to cast votes during the Lok Sabha elections.
Similarly, in Higher Secondary School, Channi Himmat, Booth Level Officer failed to provide Form 6, which is required to be filled for necessary correction in the names. After sometime, the people again visited the camp and submitted the Form 6, which they had to purchase by making payment of Rs 6 per form.
When some people sought to know why their names were not in the list for which they had even submitted the applications in a similar camp held some months back, the BLO failed to give any satisfactory reply.
Meanwhile, several voters, who tried to locate their names in the voter list available on the website of State Election Department, were not able to get any information.
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