CHANDIGARH: Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Punjab Dr S Karuna Raju on Tuesday exhorted various departments dealing with students and welfare scheme beneficiaries to help them in registering new voters, who have turned 18-years-old so that 100% enrolment of eligible electors could be ensured.
CEO Dr Raju accompanied by Additional CEO Amit Kumar was chairing a meeting of various departments including Technical Education, Employment Generation, Sports, Medical Education, Health and Family Welfare, School Education, Higher Education, Labour Department and Social Justice Empowerment etc at his office here.
Notably, the CEO on December 21, had also constituted a three-member committee for identification of new voters.
CEO Dr Raju said that these departments have all the data of young voters and if these departments join hands with the CEO office they could help in registering maximum eligible voters. He directed the representatives of these departments to do maximum efforts to enrol maximum new voters.