Chandigarh Dec 28 PTI Punjabs Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju on Tuesday urged various departments dealing with students and welfare scheme beneficiaries to help the poll panel in registering new voters turning 18 by January 1 next year CEO Raju made the request to ensure that the state has 100 per cent enrolment of eligible voters before the upcoming assembly polls early next year Accompanied by Additional CEO Amit Kumar the CEO underlined the need to rope in new voters while chairing a meeting of various government departments including Technical Education Employment Generation Sports Medical Education Health and Family Welfare School Education Higher Education Labour Department and Social Justice Empowerment among others The states poll panel chief had on December 21 set up a three-member committee for the identification of new voters Raju said these departments have all the data of young voters and if these departments join hands with the CEO office they could help in registering maximum eligible voters He asked the representatives of these departments to put in maximum efforts in enrolling maximum new voters While assuring all kinds of support from the CEO office Raju said they will depute Block Level Officers BLOs for each unit of focus so that new voters do not face any hassle while registering themselves as electors He also directed these departments to provide data of people born between January 1 2002 to December 31 2003 so that they can be captured and their Electors Photo Identification Card EPIC could be made He said once all the data is collected it will be thoroughly screened and collated PTI CHS VSD RAX RAX