Handbook for Electoral Registration Officers - Election Commission ...

Completion Instructions for Form 8 RegisterPage No.Col. 1 –A running page no. will be given at the top corner of each page of the register.Application No.- This will be a running serial number, starting from 1, for the applicationsreceived in Form 8. Each application received after final publication upto the next draftpublication shall be continuously numbered.Col.2 – Date of presentation of the Application. The date should be after date of finalpublication.Col.3 - 5Col.6 -In these columns note down the existing details of the applicant seeking correction inthe electoral roll.In this column indicate in capital letters the corrections to be made. Use separate rowfor correction of each field like name, relation name, age, sex, EPIC No. etc. in thefollowing manner:-NAME - RAKESH KUMARAGE – 25SEX - MALECol.12 –Col.13 –Col.14 –Col.15 -Intimation of decision taken should be given in prescribed form within 3 days.The applications received in a calendar month should be disposed of during the nextmonth and the manuscript should be prepared for every part separately, in duplicate,by hand by 25 th of that month. The format of the manuscript will be same as that ofthe supplement of correction of electoral roll.One copy of the manuscript of corrections should be attached below the relevant partand the other copy should be sent to the center where electoral roll database ismaintained for data entry.The data entered will be stored in the database of the relevant Assembly constituency forprinting at the time of next draft publication or on the last date for filing nominations in casethere is a bye-election from the constituency.216