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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Election Commission not to link poll rolls to Aadhaar -Bharti Jain

Election Commission not to link poll rolls to Aadhaar -Bharti Jain

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published Published on Aug 15, 2015   modified Modified on Aug 15, 2015
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has suspended its five-month-old project to clean the electoral rolls by linking and authenticating voter I-card details with Aadhaar data, days after the Supreme Court ruled that the unique identification number could be used only for PDS and LPG distribution schemes.

"All further activities relating to collection/feeding/seeding of Aadhaar number being undertaken under the National Electoral Rolls Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP) shall be suspended with immediate effect," the Election Commission said in a communication sent to chief electoral officers of all states and Union territories on Friday.

NERPAP was rolled out by the EC on March 3.

It was projected by the then chief election commissioner HS Brahma as an initiative that would result in error-free, near-perfect electoral rolls by doing away with bogus and duplicate entries. Though the project was originally intended for completion by August 15, no more than 34 crore voters had furnished their Aadhaar number so far. The EC was looking at extending the deadline to December 31, before the SC order forced it to review the scheme.

"The Supreme Court order is very clear. Aadhaar card or unique identification number cannot be used for any purpose other than PDS and LPG distribution scheme. We cannot continue with the EPIC-Aadhaar linking in view of this judgment," chief election commissioner SNA Zaidi told TOI on Friday.

The EC has now instructed state CEOs not to collect Aadhaar data from any other agency/data hub/organization of the central or state government, nor use the data collected so far for authentication. It has reiterated its earlier instructions asking election officials to scrupulously maintain data security and confidentiality of Aadhaar data already collected.

The CEOs have been told to sensitize all district election officers, electoral registration officers etc of the commission's instructions. "Any violations of these instructions will be viewed seriously by the commission and will attract disciplinary action," the poll panel warned.

The EC has asked the CEOs to ensure proper publicity for its instructions setting aside the Aadhaar-EPIC seeding project, including issuing a press note for information and compliance.

"All publicity being done in respect of NERPAP relating to collection of Aadhaar number shall be stopped immediately and all publicity material pertaining thereto, available on the CEO's website, shall be withdrawn," the EC said.

The Times of India, 15 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Election-Commission-not-to-link-poll-rolls-to-Aadhaar/articleshow/48488648.cms


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