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Saturday, April 2, 2011

EC APPROVES REGISTRATION OF NRIs AS VOTERS

Chandigarh ,Sanjay Pahwa:
Election Commission of India has approved to register eligible NRIs as voters. Disclosing this here today Chief Electoral Officer Punjab Ms. Kusumjit Sidhu said that Under Section 20A of the Representation of the people Act, 1950 inserted vide Representation of the people (Amendment) Act, 2010, every overseas elector, i.e., Indian citizen who is absenting from his place of ordinary residence in India owing to employment, education or otherwise, and has not acquired citizenship of any other country and who is not included in the electoral roll, is entitled to have his/her name registered in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence in India as mentioned in his/her passport is located.
In terms of rule 8A of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, every overseas elector whose place of residence in India is located in the State of Punjab, who has completed 18 years of age as on 01.01.2011, and is desirous of registering his/her name in the electoral roll, is invited hereby to submit claim application in Form 6-A for registration in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence as shown in the passport is located.
The claim application in Form-6A may be either submitted in person directly to the registration officer of the constituency concerned or sent to such registration officer by post alongwith the documents mentioned in Form-6A and the guidelines. When the claim application is sent by post, it should be accompanied by photocopies of the relevant pages of the passport duly attested by the competent official of the Indian mission in the country concerned.
She said that the Electoral Registration Officers of each of the 117 Assembly Constituencies in the State of Punjab and Form 6-A can be seen on the website www.ceopunjab.nic.in or http://eci.nic.in



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Saturday, April 2, 2011

EC APPROVES REGISTRATION OF NRIs AS VOTERS

Chandigarh ,Sanjay Pahwa:
Election Commission of India has approved to register eligible NRIs as voters. Disclosing this here today Chief Electoral Officer Punjab Ms. Kusumjit Sidhu said that Under Section 20A of the Representation of the people Act, 1950 inserted vide Representation of the people (Amendment) Act, 2010, every overseas elector, i.e., Indian citizen who is absenting from his place of ordinary residence in India owing to employment, education or otherwise, and has not acquired citizenship of any other country and who is not included in the electoral roll, is entitled to have his/her name registered in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence in India as mentioned in his/her passport is located.
In terms of rule 8A of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, every overseas elector whose place of residence in India is located in the State of Punjab, who has completed 18 years of age as on 01.01.2011, and is desirous of registering his/her name in the electoral roll, is invited hereby to submit claim application in Form 6-A for registration in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence as shown in the passport is located.
The claim application in Form-6A may be either submitted in person directly to the registration officer of the constituency concerned or sent to such registration officer by post alongwith the documents mentioned in Form-6A and the guidelines. When the claim application is sent by post, it should be accompanied by photocopies of the relevant pages of the passport duly attested by the competent official of the Indian mission in the country concerned.
She said that the Electoral Registration Officers of each of the 117 Assembly Constituencies in the State of Punjab and Form 6-A can be seen on the website www.ceopunjab.nic.in or http://eci.nic.in



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