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बहार गजट (असाधारण), 6 माच# 2017
ELECTION SOMMISSION OF INDIA
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ORDER
Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-110001 dated 23rd February 2017
No.3/4/ID/ECl/LET/FUNC/JUD/SDR/VOL.I/2017/(Council)
(BR)—Whereas,
the
Election Commission has been following the policy of compulsory identification of electors
by means of specified identification documents at elections to the House of the People and
Legislative Assemblies from the year 2000 onwards, so as to prevent impersonation at
elections thereby making the right of genuine electors to vote under section 62 of the
Representation of the people Act, 1951 more effective; and
2. Whereas, keeping in view the provisions of Rules, 35(3) and 37(2)(b) of the Conduct of
Elections Rules, 1961, the Commission has been issuing directions that the electors at election to
House of People and Legislative Assemblies shall produce their Electoral Photo Identity Cards or
other specified documents at the polling station and failure or refusal on their part to produce those
Electoral Photo Identity Cards or documents may result in the denial of supply of a ballot paper to
them and permission to vote; and
3. Whereas, the said provisions regarding identification of electors and safeguards against
personation are equally applicable at elections from Graduates' and Teachers' Constituencies, and as
the electors in these constituencies are also electors in assembly constituencies, they would have been
supplied with Electoral Identity Cards as electors in their respective Assembly
Constituencies;
4. Now, therefore, after taking into account all relevant factors and the legal and factual
position, the Election Commission hereby directs that all electors at the biennial elections in Saran
Graduates' Constituency, Gaya Graduates' Constituency, Gaya Teachers' Constituency and Koshi
Teachers' Constituency' , in the State of Bihar, who have been issued with their EPICs, shall have to
produce these cards to exercise their franchise, when they come to the polling stations for voting at the
biennial elections to the Bihar Legislative Council from the said Constituencies, notified on 13th
February, 2017. However, those electors who are not able to produce EPICs, will have to establish
their identity, by producing any of the following alternative documents: -
i.
Passport,
ii. Driving License,
iii. PAN Card,
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iv. Service Identity Card issued by the educational Institutions in
which the electors of the concerned Teachers’s/Graduates’s
Constituency may be employed,
v.
Certificate of degree/Diploma issued by University, in original,
vi. Certificate of Physical handicap issued by competent Authority,
in original,
vii. Service identity card issued to its employees by state/Central
government, Public Sector Undertakings, Local bodies or other
Private Industrial Houses.
viii. Aadaar Card,
ix. Official identity Cards issued to MPs/MLAs/MLCs.
Yours faithfully
K.F.Wilfred,
Secretary.
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