Bhaktapur, Apr. 11: The district election office, Bhaktapur, has organised a four days long training for the assistant name registration officers of the district with the objective of collecting the names of eligible voters in the district and updating the voters’ list.

Representatives of political parties and secretaries from 34 local wards of Bhaktapur and Madhyapur Thimi Municipalities covering the two parliamentary electoral constituencies of Bhaktapur district are taking part in the training.

Political party representatives have urged for impartiality in the name registration process.

The participating ward chairmen would start collecting the new names of eligible voters after the completion of the first phase training programme recently, according to Dhurba Raj Wagle, chief district officer and the chief name registration officer.

Assistant name registration officer and assistant Chief District Officer Rabiraj Kafle provided the training to the participants.

Likewise, a two-day orientation training for assistant name registration officers of 29 Village Development Commitees (VDCs) from parliamentary constituency-1 of the district concluded in Besisahar recently. The training concerned updating of the voters’ list in the district.

Addressing the concluding function of the training, chief name registration officer and chief district officer Govinda Khanal directed the assistant name registration officers to be extra careful so that no names of the eligible voters is left out and no proxy names are registered. He said they should be impartial and keep in mind the consequences of such erroneous work.

Assistant chief district officer Durga Datta Poudel had provided the training to the participants.