Common Electoral Roll Ajit Joshi District Election Officer

Common Electoral Roll Ajit Joshi District Election Officer Sonipat

Use of technology for election Management • Use of Unicode • Formation of call center with 6 operators on election day • Software for roll revision and making it as a common pool for all sorts of elections

Background. . • In the context of Haryana(P. R. ): – 1994 and 2004 revision – BDO is Dist. Electoral Officer • Definition of Wards: – Continuity and Compactness • Duplicity of votes – (Difference >15000 MC Sonipat)

Background. . • Multiplicity of Roles: – Wardbandi by Revenue Dept. i. e. C. R. O. – Election process by Development and Panchayat Department – Different priorities to Assembly and Panchayat elections at District level

Solution: - Single Database • Single Database of Voters List – The Assembly Voter list can be used to generate the Panchayat Voter List or vice-versa – Automatic Generation of Panchayat List or Assembly List – This can be done on-demand or as a scheduled process. – The Reports can be printed for a Hardcopy List or viewed in a soft copy format for each Village. • Additional features – Features like searching across specific fields like House Number will be possible in the proposed solution.

Situation: - Two separate lists • Separate Panchayat and Assembly Voter lists – Both lists are independently created at considerable additional costs. – Every update to the Assembly list needs to be reflected in the Panchayat List. – Discrepancies exist between the lists which lead to incorrect Voter identification. – Creating the Panchayat List is a manual process and is error prone. – No photo images in the PRI list

Advantages • Reduced Cost of Maintenance – Using the Parliamentary Electoral list reduces the total cost in generating and maintaining the Panchayat Voter List • Reliability of Data – Maintaining a single Voter list allows for more Reliable data for voter identification. • Value Add features – Value add Features like searching the Voters list for a specific House Number or Voter ID is possible. • Automated or On-Demand generation of Voters List. – Specific List of Voters for a Single Ward or based on specific criteria is possible.

Adding New Technology. . • Current Database in Microsoft Acess • Using an SQL Server 2005 Database – The Access Database can be imported into an SQL Server Database to benefit from all the features available on SQL Server. • Benefits of SQL Server – Better Performance - A single database can be hosted at one site for a specific district or region. All people in the region can access the application running against this single database. – More Secure – SQL Server provides additional security mechanisms to secure access to the data and also track changes being made to the Database. – Additional Features – Internet enabled reporting, scheduled online or Email reports or Ad-Hoc reporting and a host of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence features are available. – Any Data updation of commerce related activity like Excel Sheet can be updated!!

Suggestion. . • Household as a unit and house numbering of the census shall be the base of electoral roll formation • I-Card house numbering is match to census house numbering • Bio-metric thumb impression (Ready for pilot on 5 booths, if permitted)(25 GB per AC, will save staff TA/DA of 5 Lacs/AC) • The reverse production of Voter List i. e. “Bottom to Top” from Panchayat to Loksabha will be more viable option as it get revised every year