NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: A number of residents in Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad have said their names are either missing from voters’ list prepared last year or have errors in them, at a time the administration has started a two-month long drive for verification.The numbers vary: while residents maintain that up to 30% of names on the voters’ list has anomalies, the district election offices in both districts claim the figure to be less than 5%.The reason for the mistakes, admit officials, is that booth-level officers (BLOs) hardly visit the camps held to register the voters or incorrect entries by both residents and BLOs. Even in a recent camp held on September 9, over 20 BLOs were found missing in Noida, which has 544 designated booths. The BLOs who register new voters and verify names are the first step in the registration process.“In Noida, about 3% anomalies were found in the voters’ list of 2017. We have already started corrective measures by way of holding the first voter registration/correction camp on September 9, when a total of 359 applications were received across 544 designated booths. At the camp, we found 23 BLOs absent. We will take action against them if they do not turn up for the next camp on September 23,” said Durgesh Singh, deputy tehsildar, Dadri.Some of the major problems faced by residents on the voter list include discrepancies in voter ID cards, improper information, incorrect age, address etc.Ghaziabad district magistrate Ritu Maheshwari, who is also the district election officer, admitted there had been instances when genuine names were not in the final voters list. She, however, could not quantify the total number of people whose names were struck off the final list.

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