Millennium Voters of Meghalaya to be felicitated

The Election Commission will felicitate Millennium Voters, those who turn 18 on January 1 next year, in poll-bound Meghalaya during the National Voters Day on January 25.
It would be done to welcome them to the democratic process of the country, Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer F R Kharkongor said today.
"The Commission is coming out with a new concept of felicitating Millennium Voters. People who were born on January 1, 2000 and turn 18 next year will be felicitated during the National Voters Day," he told reporters here.
There are about 74,000 Millennium Voters in the country.
"In our state, each district is projected to have 200 Millennium Voters and we have sought information from the municipal board to try and connect and get them enrolled," the Meghalaya CEO said.

Meghalaya has 11 districts and Assembly elections are due in the state next year. The tenure of the current House ends on March 6, 2018.
Kharkongor expressed concern over the huge gap between the projected population and the number of voters in the state.
The current projected population based on Census 2011 is around 35 lakh, he said adding that the gap was 1,08,318.