KHAR: A door-to-door campaign for verification of those getting computerised national identity cards (CNICs) during the last one year is under way in Bajaur Agency. The process is being conducted for revision of the electoral list for 2018 general election.

Agency election commissioner Pervez Iqbal told mediapersons here on Tuesday that the drive had been launched on Jan 15 across the agency. He said that a total of 47,920 people of the agency who had got their national identity cards between Jan 1, 2017 and Jan15, 2018 would be verified in the 25-day campaign.

He said that a total of 816 enumerators, most of them government school teachers, had been assigned the task of verification in the agency. He said that a number of officials of the election commission were also part of the drive to make the exercise a success. He said that the agency was divided in 826 blocks where the enumerators will go door to door to verify the newly-registered voters.

The official said that there were 10 blocks/villages in the agency where no one had got CNICs between Jan 1, 2017 and Dec 2017. He said that the election commission was committed to enrolling maximum number of voters, especially female in the final voter list. He stated that display centres had also been established to offer a chance to the voters to correct any errors before finalisation of the electoral lists for the next general election.

Published in Dawn, January 17th, 2018