EC starts updating Dhaka voters today

The Election Commission-appointed enumerators will start going door-to-door in Dhaka metropolitan area from today to collect data of citizens to update the electoral roll and prepare National Identity (NID) cards.

The data collection process will continue till September 22. Afterwards, the people, whose names would be included in the list, will have to go to the EC-designated registration centres for completing enrolment process and photo shoot, said EC officials.

The EC on July 25 started the electoral roll updating programme across the country. The programme is being conducted in three phases.

A total of 50,000 enumerators will work to complete the task, while upazila-level coordination committee will supervise the function.