The task of updating the voters' list with photographs will start from August across the country, the election commissioner, M Sakhawat Hussain, said Thursday.
Talking to reporters at the Election Commission Secretariat, he said before updating the voters' list, pilot projects would be conducted in four different locations of the country from the second week of July.
Sakhawat noted that the pilot projects would be conducted at Panaongkhali in Unkhia upazila in Cox's Bazar to gather experience overall Rohingya people, at Potnitola in the country's Noagaon to get informed about people of border areas, an area in Dhaka-18 constituency to know about people in slums and posh areas, and at Kaliganj in Gazipur.
He said the people who would exceed 18 years of age by the time of the 10th parliamentary elections due in 2013 would be included in the draft voters' list so that they could be included in the voters' list.
'In such a way there will be no need to update the voters' list every year,' he said, adding that it is necessary to bring amendments to the National Registration Act-2010.
The election commissioner said something new would be found in the updated voters' list this year. People who will be included anew will have to provide four new pieces of information—ID number of both parents, spouse's ID if married, and birth registration certificate number.
'It's not only updating the voters' list or the national ID cards, it will also be considered a national data base,' the commissioner said.
Source: New Age
