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64 district bodies to make fresh voter list

Staff Correspondent
The Election Commission (EC) will form 64 district-level committees that will be responsible for preparing the voter list for the next parliamentary election.
The committees will be headed by deputy commissioners (DC) and accountable to EC for coordinating the task of preparing the electoral rolls, said a senior official at the EC secretariat.
District election officers, upazila executive officers, and other high-ups at the field-level administration will be members of the committees, he added.
Talking to reporters yesterday, EC Secretary SM Zakaria said the EC will form the committees at the field-level to coordinate the enumeration task. "Such committees will be formed before the start of collection of information about people eligible to be voters," he said.
Meanwhile, preparatory work is going on in full swing as the EC secretariat plans to complete collection of information by October and enumerators will start registering people as voters in November.
The EC secretariat plans to recruit some three lakh enumerators, 75, 000 supervisors, 7,000 assistant registration officers, and 500 revising authorities for preparing the list. After completion of the recruitment, training programmes will start for those officials.
Meanwhile, the printing of over eight crore registration forms has already started.
BUDGET AT A GLANCE
The EC yesterday again sought from the finance ministry a fund of Tk 146.29 crore as the ministry on Thursday sent back the budget proposal due to procedural flaws.
The EC secretariat yesterday sent the proposal with a summary signed by its secretary SM Zakaria.
The EC officials said they hope the budget issue would be settled in a week through discussion with the finance ministry.
The proposed budget estimates a cost of Tk 75 crore for remuneration of about four lakh enumerators and supervisors. Remuneration cost EC Tk 56 crore in preparing the last voter list in 2000.
This time, the EC secretariat estimates the cost of printing the voter list to be at Tk 27 crore while it was Tk 22 crore in 2000.
The officials at the EC secretariat said they sought Tk 111 crore in 2000 for preparing the previous voter list but were allocated Tk 101 crore. Finally, it took Tk 95 crore to have the list prepared.