Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Dr S Karuna Raju on Tuesday exhorted various departments dealing with students and welfare scheme beneficiaries to help them in registering new voters, who have turned 18-years-old so that 100% enrolment of eligible electors could be ensured.
The CEO, accompanied by Additional CEO Amit Kumar was chairing a meeting of various departments including Technical Education, EMPLOYMENT Generation, Sports, Medical Education, Health and Family Welfare, School Education, Higher Education, Labour Department and Social Empowerment etc at his office here. He had earlier on December 21 constituted a three-member committee for identification of new voters. Dr Raju said that these departments have all the data of young voters and if these departments join hands with the CEO office they could help in registering maximum eligible voters.