Charikot (dolakha): Voters’ identity cards are to be distributed to the registered voters in constituency number two of Dolakha district from next year.

This information was given at a two-day seminar of assistant name registration officers on registration and updating of the voters’ list organised here recently.

According to the district election commission office, arrangement for distribution of the voters’ identity cards in constituency-2 of the district would be complete by the time of the local election. There are two electoral constituencies in the district.

Inaugurating the two-day seminar, district development committee (DDC) chairman Lal Kumar K.C. said that free, fair and peaceful elections were the hallmarks of a democracy.

Basanta Raj Joshi of the cpn-ml, Barma Lama of the Nepali Congress, deputy mayor of Bhimeshwar Municipality Shanta Bahadur Basnet and chief district officer Khagendra Dev Joshi also shed light on the importance of free and fair elections for the consolidation of democracy in the country.

VDC secretaries and office-bearers took part in the seminar in their capacity as the assistant name registration officers.