New voters on the Cards
Prashant Hamine

The work of issuing identity cards to residual voters, who have not got
their cards in Mumbai Suburban district, will commence from this month.
Suburban district collector Vishwasrao Patil said on on Tuesday that the
programme to cover all the current 17 assembly segments in the suburbs will
be implemented in phases.

To start with two assembly constituencies of Bandra and Amboli, the
programme will then be taken up in Mulund assembly constituency. Patil
stated that during 1994-95 about 85 to 90 percent of the electorate in the
state had been provided with voter identity cards. Following the directives
of the Election Commission in 2000, a pilot project of issuing these cards
was taken up in six select assembly constituencies.

Stating that the programme in Bandra and Amboli constituencies is expected
to last for about a month and a half, Patil clarified that the persons with
mutilated or lost voter ID cards can obtain a new one by paying a nominal
fee of Rs25 at the programme. He added that each center so designated will
handle between 2,000 to 2,500 voters in the area.

The new voter ID cards will be accompanied with invitation cards and three
dates of choice when they must remain present with relevant documents at the
centre. If all the documents are in order, the voters can get their ID cards
online. But voters in need of rectifications in their ID cards must fill up
Form No 8


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