New Delhi Dec 21 PTI Amid Opposition criticism of a bill to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls sources in the government on Tuesday said the move would solve a major problem of multiple enrolment of a person at different places and help in cleaning the voters list to a great extent The assertion came on a day when Parliament passed the Election Laws Amendment Bill 2021 to link electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem The bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on Tuesday a day after Lok Sabha gave its nod to the bill The government sources said the bill incorporates various electoral reforms which have been discussed for a long time and shared a 2018 statement of the Election Commission following a meeting of all recognised national and regional parties on various electoral reforms Political parties urged the commission to link Aadhaar numbers with electors detail for better electoral roll management the EC had said Registration in the electoral roll is done based on an application by a person who is eligible to be registered as a voter and this bill has a provision whereby the new applicant may voluntarily provide the Aadhaar number along with the application for the purpose of identity government sources said No application will be rejected on the grounds that Aadhaar number has not been provided the sources added Aadhaar linking with electoral roll will solve one of the major problems in electoral database management which is multiple enrolment of the same person at different places they said This may be due to the frequent shifting of residence by electors and getting enrolled in the new place without deleting the previous enrolment the sources noted Thus the possibility of electors whose names appear in more than one electoral roll or at times more than once in the same electoral roll can be removed they said Once Aadhaar linkage is achieved the electoral roll data system will instantly alert the existence of previous registrations whenever a person applies for new registration the sources said This will help in cleaning the electoral roll to a great extent and facilitate voter registration in the location at which they are ordinarily resident the sources added Besides linking electoral roll to Aadhaar the bill also seeks to make the statutes gender neutral by substituting the term wife with spouse to allow husbands of service voters to cast their vote from the place where their wives are posted It also seeks to provide four qualifying dates -- January 1 April 1 July 1 and October 1 -- in a year for registration of voters instead of a single qualifying date -- January 1 According to the bill various sections of the Representation of the People Act 1950 and 1951 will be amended The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the bill states that Section 23 of the RP Act 1950 will be amended to allow linking of electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem to curb the menace of multiple enrolment of the same person in different places PTI ASK KR ZMN

New Delhi Dec 21 PTI Amid Opposition criticism of a bill to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls sources in the government on Tuesday said the move would solve the major problem of multiple enrolment of the same person at different places and help in cleaning the voters list to a great extent The assertion comes a day after the Election Laws Amendment bill 2021 to link electoral roll data with the Aadhaar ecosystem and bring other poll reforms was passed by the Lok Sabha after a brief debate and amid demand by the Opposition to refer it to a standing committee The government sources said the bill incorporates various electoral reforms which have been discussed for a long time and shared a 2018 statement of the Election Commission following a meeting of all recognised national and regional parties on various electoral reforms Political parties urged the commission to link Aadhaar numbers with electors detail for better electoral roll management the EC had said Registration in the electoral roll is done based on an application by a person who is eligible to be registered as a voter and this bill has a provision whereby the new applicant may voluntarily provide the Aadhaar number along with the application for the purpose of identity government sources said No application will be rejected on the grounds that Aadhaar number has not been provided the sources added Aadhaar linking with electoral roll will solve one of the major problems in electoral database management which is multiple enrolment of the same person at different places they said This may be due to the frequent shifting of residence by electors and getting enrolled in the new place without deleting the previous enrolment the sources noted Thus the possibility of electors whose names appear in more than one electoral roll or at times more than once in the same electoral roll can be removed they said Once Aadhaar linkage is achieved the electoral roll data system will instantly alert the existence of previous registrations whenever a person applies for new registration the sources said This will help in cleaning the electoral roll to a great extent and facilitate voter registration in the location at which they are ordinarily resident the sources added Besides linking electoral roll to Aadhaar the bill also seeks to make the statutes gender neutral by substituting the term wife with spouse to allow husbands of service voters to cast their vote from the place where their wives are posted It also seeks to provide four qualifying dates -- January 1 April 1 July 1 and October 1 -- in a year for registration of voters instead of a single qualifying date -- January 1 PTI ASK KR KR DV DV

New Delhi Dec 20 PTI Registration of housing properties in Mumbai municipal region fell by 18 per cent in November to 7582 units but numbers during January-November jumped over twofold to 102232 units the highest in last one decade according to Knight Frank The registration of homes stood at 7582 units in November last year During January-November 2020 46052 homes were registered Registration data is of transactions made in both primary and secondary re-sale residential markets Mumbai city MCGM region property sale registrations have crossed the 100000 mark for the first time in a decade The earlier high during the last 10 years was 80746 units in 2018 Knight Frank India said in a statement The consultant attributed the fall in registrations number in November 2021 to a lower stamp duty rate of 2 per cent in the same month last year Shishir Baijal Chairman Managing Director Knight Frank India said The consumer sentiment in Mumbai housing market remains strong The growth rate has moderated when compared to the year ago period when market was buoyant on account of the lowest applicable stamp duty rate window The demand enablers in the form of low house prices low home loan interest rate and new project launches continue to entice homebuyers he added The threat of new COVID-19 variants and response from healthcare system will be crucial in determination of market activity level in near future Baijal said In Mumbais primary housing market Macrotech Developers Lodha group Godrej Properties Oberoi Realty Hiranandani group Kalpataru Ltd Tata Housing Shapoorji Pallonji Piramal Realty Mahindra Lifespace Developers Rustomjee group and K Raheja group are major players PTI MJH MR MR

Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], October 26 (ANI): The Commissionerate of Police on Monday busted a women snatchers' gang by arresting four people including three women and a man besides seizing gold bangles, bracelets, chain and swift car, said a statement by the District Public Relations Officer, Ludhiana.

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