The Election Commission has formed a central monitoring committee to find out the problems in the ongoing voter roll updating as it did not get the targeted numbers in the first phase of new voter enrolment.
From May 15 to 24, the commission began its new voter enrolment with the aim to enrol five percent of the new voters at 181 upazilas in the first phase, but they were only able to enrol four percent.
“The committee will find out the cause of the low number of new voter enrolment in contrast to the commission’s target in the first phase,” a senior assistant secretary, seeking anonymity, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
Such committees will be formed at each division, district, upazila and city corporation to monitor whether voter list updating activities were being properly done and 10 sub-committees had also been formed under the central committee.
They all would submit area-based reports. They would also monitor whether the fund allocated for updating voter roll was being spent properly or not.
Some of the sub-committees would be led by the commission’s deputy secretary and the others by its senior assistant secretary, the official said, adding that the commission had meanwhile decided to launch a mass campaign for voter enrolment.
