elhi Electoral Office has launched a fresh drive for comprehensive revision of electoral rolls from today in all the 70 Assembly Constituencies in the national capital with January 1st, 2013 as qualifying date. The drive has been initiated following an Election Commission's directive.

The objective of this exercise is to update the electoral roll by including the names of the eligible citizens who will attain the age of 18 years or more on January 1st, next year and to delete the names of non-existent electors due to death, shifting and other reasons.

According to the Delhi Chief Electoral Ofiicer, Vijay Dev, during this exercise people will be able to file claims and objections till 14 th of next month and the revised electoral roll will be published on January 10, 2013.

The disposal of claims and objections will be completed by 15th of December this year while updating of database and printing of supplementary lists will take place between 15th to 28th December.

AIR correspondent reports that currently the number of voters in Delhi is around 1.18 crore.A helpline will be available for the general public in the election office for electoral roll related enquiry.

The Number is - 23918888. People can also have full information about the electoral roll at the website www.ceodelhi. nic.in .