KATHMANDU: Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya has stressed the need for updating the voters’ list and for coordinating with all stakeholders to review polling center and stations to organize elections in a fair, free, credible and economical way.

For effective management of election, use of technology would be increased to execute works of the Election Commission as per its Third Five-Year Strategic Plan, he said while inaugurating a one-day training session for computer operators at the district election offices in Province-1 and 2 and Bagmati Province on subjects related voters’ list update.

“According to the Electoral Rolls Act, new registration of voters’ names in the voters’ list cannot be done at a time when elections have already been announced. But errors in the voters’ rolls will be removed as per the provision to update voters’ list for elections,” he said.

Stating that elections strengthen democracy and help maintain good governance and organizing polls as per the constitutional responsibility of the Commission is its main duty, he said that there is a need to remove errors in the voters’ list and determine polling centers and stations in the areas that are safe, accessible and undisputed.

The Commission has urged all citizens to make use of the program to update the voters’ list at local level to be launched soon.