The Kathmandu District Election Office (DEO) has initiated the collection of names of eligible voters for the electoral list and updating the same in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and the Kirtipur Municipality areas including the 57 Village Development Committees (VDCs) in the district from Friday.

Accordingly, works like preparing the list of households, updating the voters’ list, deleting from the voters’ list the names of persons who have expired and including the names of citizens who have reached 18 years of age till April 13 would be carried out, reports state run The Rising Nepal daily.

The Election Commission has made arrangements for a District Voters’ List Collection and Updating Programme Implementation and Coordination Committee under the convenorship of the Chief District Officer for conducting the programme of collection of the voters’ list and its updating in a smooth and systematic manner.

Under the programme, Nepalese citizens who have reached 18 years of age are required to visit the Ward Offices of the VDCs and Municipality of which they are permanent residents and submit an application for inclusion of own and their family members’ names in the voters’ list or for making corrections in case of any errors.

The ward members of all the VDCs and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Kirtipur Municipality have been appointed as the Assistant Name Registration Officers for that purpose.

This information was given out at an interaction programme organised by the District Election Office, Kathmandu here today.

The number of voters in the one Metropolitan City, one Municipality and 57 VDCs in the Kathmandu district is 511,564. nepalnews.com pb Apr 14 06