48,300 enumerators for upto 46 lakh new voters

UNB, Dhaka :
Some 48300 enumerators will collect the list of possible voters during the triple-phase countrywide electoral rolls update, scheduled to kick off May 15.
The Election Commission will also appoint 9,660 supervisors, one for five enumerators each, EC Secretariat sources said. The commission estimates some 4.6 million fresh voters, a five percent growth, will come out during the voter list update since the commission did not update the electoral rolls in 2013.
Currently there are 91,950,641 voters in the country.
The EC will install some 54,000 voter registration centres in 4583 union parishads, 313 municipalities, 12 cantonment boards and 439 wards of 11 city corporations across the country.
A total of 150 voter registration teams will work in the field. Each team is comprised of a team leader, four data-entry operators, two proof-readers and a data-entry helper.
Bangladeshi citizens to have turned 18 on or before January 1, 2015 and the  
eligible Bangladeshis who missed the current roll will be included in the new voters’ list. The electoral rolls will be updated in 181 upazilas or thana in the first phase, 218 in the second phase and 115 in the third phase by December next.
In the first phase, enumerators will go for door-to-door data collection from May 15 to 24, while photographs and fingerprints will be taken in each voter registration centre from May 26 to 15 July.
In the second phase, data of possible voters will be collected from June 15 to 24, while photographs and fingerprints will be taken in voter registration centres from July 18 to September 15.
In the third phase, data of possible voters will be collected from September 1 to 10, while photographs and fingerprints will be taken in voter registration centres from September 18 to November 15.
Earlier in 2012, the commission updated the country’s voter list which was published in 2013 ahead of the 10th parliamentary elections.