The Election Commission has started updating the voter list of Dhaka City Corporation.
Starting from Monday morning, the process will continue until September 10.
The process for taking photographs of new voters of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will start from September 18, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed said at a press conference in his office on Sunday.
The CEC confirmed that during the first phase of updating, 181 upazila have already been covered and now they are in the third phase where they are going to start updating information of voters in 120 upazilas. Ninety-two upazilas are yet to be covered under the second phase, he said.
CEC warned everyone to avoid having dual voter enlistment. Anyone found doing so would be penalised.
Day labourers will not be included in this updating process as they create confusion while providing permanent address. The local governments have been informed about the issues, he said.
According to CEC’s statistics, 3,082,287 new voters have been enlisted so far of whom 17,59,233 are male.
