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UP voters could have coloured ID cards by
2014
Wednesday November 28, 2012 06:54:29 PM,
Mohit Dubey, IANS
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Lucknow: If all goes
as planned, voters in Ghaziabad and Lucknow might be armed with
coloured voter ID cards when they go to cast their ballot in the
2014 Lok Sabha polls. The new, smarter cards with clear colour
photos of voters, would help weed out impersonators, the foremost
reason for the initiative.
A proposal that this be taken up as a pilot project in the Uttar
Pradesh capital and in Ghaziabad, adjoining the national capital,
has been sent to the Election Commission of India by the chief
electoral office in the state.
Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha said his office was awaiting
the green signal from the Election Commission to change from the
black and white voter ID cards.
The existing cards have poor quality photographs and other flaws,
making identification of the 'real' voter a problem, Sinha told
IANS.
The idea is to move to "standardised modern IDs that are sleek and
trendy", he added.
During the pilot phase, no chip would be inserted, but the poll
panel does not rule out such appendages and biometrics in the
future.
The state commission is also trying to issue cards 'then and
there' from Citizen Service Centres (Jan Suvidha Kendras).
The idea is to cut the long waiting time from the time of
application to the delivery of the card, Sinha said.
This will be done in phases - first at the tehsil (sub-district)
and then by creating voter registration centres at the block,
kasba and district levels. Hopefully soon, a person could walk
into a service centre, give either a passport, driving licence,
PAN card or the official ID card issued by an employer and get a
voter ID card pronto.
Initially, Sinha said, an ID from public sector undertakings or
the like would be considered for the snap card service.
Other initiatives are already under way.
In its bid to identify and connect more polling booths, 75,000
polling booths have already been mapped through the
geo-information systems (GIS) that would enable voters to locate
their booths on the net. The remaining 130,000 polling booths
would be covered before the next Lok Sabha elections, scheduled in
2014, Sinha said.
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has 127.3 million
registered voters, a figure that is estimated to go up to 130
million by 2014.
(Mohit Dubey can be contacted at mohit.d@ians.in)
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