Voters registration begins in Sitakunda, Raozan municipalities

FE Team | Published: August 24, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Aug 23 (BSS): The works for preparing voters' list with photographs and national identity (ID) cards began in Raozan and Sitakunda municipalities today.
Official sources said District Election Office with the cooperation of Bangladesh Army formally started voters' registration process by taking fingerprints and digitised photographs of the eligible voters in the municipality areas.
Separate teams of the army with necessary expertise are directly supervising and conducting the work at the registration centres already set up in the areas.
Mohammad Kamran has been supervising the technical support being provided by the Bangladesh Army in Sitakunda area while Nasiruddin Khan is doing the same in Raozan area.
Terming the response of voters to the registration process as encouraging, the election officials in the areas said the people are spontaneously coming to the centres for registration with digital photographs.
The sources said 82 field level data collectors and 19 supervisors have been appointed for Sitakunda Municipality area and 162 data collectors and 34 supervisors for Raozan Municipality.
Earlier, these field level staff were imparted a three-day training on the task.
On the other hand, 62 data entry operators were appointed for Sitakunda while 85 for Raozan municipalities with adequate number of supervisors to enrol the voters at the centres.
A total of 10 centres have been set up in both Sitakunda and Raozan municipalities in the first phase and more would be opened later for completing the process smoothly.
Enumerators had distributed voter registration forms to every households in the areas and collected information on 8000 out of a total of 24,064 voters (as per old voters' list) in Sitakunda area and information on approximately 25,000 out of 49,305 voters (as per old voters' list ) in Raozan area until Thursday.
The data collection and registration process will continue up to September 7 in Sitakunda while up to September 14 in Raozan area , the officials said.