Special camps held at Ludhiana polling booths to boost voter mapping.

Ludhiana: To accelerate progress of mapping remaining voters under a pre-SIR drive, special camps were organised on Sunday at all 2,927 polling booths across all assembly constituencies by booth level officers (BLOs).

Officials said that the camps were held on the directions of Election Commission of India and Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab. Additional deputy commissioner (G)-cum-additional electoral officer Poonam Singh conducted inspections at polling booths in various assembly constituencies to check the presence of BLOs and reviewed the voter mapping work being carried out by them.

She visited booths number 2, 3, and 4 under Ludhiana Central at Kamla Lohtia Sanatan Dharam College near Bajwa Nagar, along with Booth Nos. 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 under Ludhiana West in addition to at Govt Elementary School No. 5, College Road, Civil Lines. Booth Nos. 132, 133, 134, 135, and 136 under Ludhiana North constituency in Govt High School, Kundanpuri. As per sources in the govt, all booth level officers were found present at these booths, she stated.

The additional deputy commissioner directed BLOs to enhance voter mapping efforts and increase outreach to voters. Additionally, instructions were issued to share the list of un-mapped voters with Booth Level Agents (BLAs) and representatives of local political parties.

BLAs appointed by various political parties and local councillors were also present, in accordance with instructions of the Election Commission of India.The Additional District Electoral Officer also asked the Booth Level Agents and councillors to assist the booth level officers and help in mapping the un-mapped voters.