Punjab voters’ lists to include mobile phone numbers
May 26th, 2011 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANSChandigarh, May 26 (IANS) Electoral rolls in Punjab will soon also list the mobile phone numbers of registered voters, a senior poll official said here Thursday.
Punjab’s Chief Electoral Officer Kusumjit Sidhu has directed the election department officers to ensure the timely collection of mobile phone numbers of all the voters registered in the electoral roll.
Elections to 117 assembly seats in Punjab are scheduled to be held February-March next year.
In a statement, Sidhu said collection of telephone numbers would be done through booth-level officers during the month of June.
She has urged all registered voters of Punjab to give their mobile phone numbers to the election officials.
There are nearly 1.2 crore voters in Punjab.
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