Maharashtra Voter List to go Unicode!
The voter list in Maharashtra(India) is soon going to be Unicode. The voter list data already exists in computerized form and is available in local languages.But there is no provision in the system for a public interface in Indian Languages.Linux and free software, localized Indian Languages, and the Unicode standard alone can provide an affordable universal interface.
The voter list will be only a starting point in the move to generalize Indian language-enabled e-governance initiatives.
Professor Jitendra Shah’s IndicTrans team has come up with this idea.
Open source will be used in US in November elections and if it gets implemented then we’ll be the first in the world 
In Detail:-
Understanding the Issues in Detail
The first issue concerns the voter list as such. In its current form, the lists are composed in Indian languages–for example, in Marathi for Maharashtra–and stored in databases. The storage traditionally has been using ISCII, a national font-independent standard. But when the data has to be displayed it inevitably has to be done in vendor-specific font-encoding, such as ISFOC. In addition, in order to not expose this data to the public, the electronic data files are not published by the CEC. On a side-note, whole lists easily can be downloaded from state sites for Delhi, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh and so on. Hence in Maharashtra, the Electoral Office converts the rolls to PDF files that then are displayed on its Web site. This requires visual scanning of page after page to look up one’s name.
This method doesn’t make extracting information an easy process for non-skilled computer users. Although it is possible to use certain tools to extract the information from the PDF files, you can do this for only certain files, not all of them.
Now, suppose your name was misspelled. To get the information updated, you would have to write a letter to the CEC by hand. And guess what? The content in the files (in its current state) would require some proprietary software to make any amendments.
The Ideal World Case
What Prof. Shah is proposing is “citizen-friendly access”. According to him, the same data should be available in a public, font-independent standard that is multilingual and accepted in all major operating systems–Unicode.
Shah also believes the CEC should relax its policy of restricting access to this data. If CEC decides to share the data–with appropriate security checks, of course–it would be imperative to shift to standards that can be accessed without proprietary software.
Prof. Shah asserts that public information, such as voter lists, must be available in formats that follow open public standards and must be available for amending and interaction without any expenditure on or binding to a closed software system of a specific vendor. It is, of course, subject to the law of the land as to how much access is given to the lay citizen.
Access to free software ensures that an official at any administrative level could make the amendments and submit the same to a higher authority for approval.
Proof of Concept
Now that we understand the difficulties in the existing system and how we want the situation to be handled, let’s look at the technology that bridges the gap.
As already stated, the government has to adopt an accepted standard for maintaining its records. Unicode is the best option available, and according to Prof. Shah, both the state and the central government has accepted it as its future direction. All e-Governance projects most likely will be funded for conversion from older standards or non-standards to Unicode. For people not yet convinced about the usability of Unicode, Prof. Shah has tabulated various configurations to demonstrate its compatibility. The table is available here.
As a proof of concept, Prof. Shah and his team have converted the content for the voter list from the non-standard font-encoded format to the standard Unicode format. You can view screenshots, see sample converted files and search on sample data here.
As a demonstration of the power and use of Unicode, the team also has converted the Marathi files into Gujarati. This proves that interlingual translatability is not exclusive to ISCII and even Unicode can achieve the same.
Prof. Shah’s team now is adept at converting various formats of data to and from Unicode. They parse the files from their software-specific structure, say .rtf, .dbf or .html, to a generic structure. This often is done implicitly or explicitly. Then, the information is converted either as files or on the fly. The same can be restored to its original structure whenever needed.
The Response
The Election Office has yet to decide on the adoption of the solution. The software solution has been proposed first as working for standalone machines for telephone help-lines. It may be extended for use on the Internet.
Prof. Shah feels that the bureaucracy hesitates with the technology because many commercial software vendors have been promising a lot, but so far they have not delivered. Often, support is a problem. The need for support is felt even more acutely in the open-source domain. Plus, there is the added responsibility that comes with the freedom associated with open-source software, which the bureaucracy is not equipped to handle.
Prof. Shah, acting as a teacher, finds the bureaucrats to be quite amenable to open source. This is partly because no price tag is attached to his opinions and nor a hidden agenda other than making the democratic process more democratic.
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See http://demo.binyasit.com/indictrans/voterlist/ for a live demo of the Unicode based voter list search engine (mentioned in the article) with data from Dharavi Constituency (Mumbai)
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THE GANESH NAIK WILL MAGIC WORK FOR HIS SON’S VICTORY IN THANE LOK SABHA ELECTIONS 2009……….
For a leader who proved his magic in the 2004 assembly elections’ record victory, today NCP Navi Mumbai Supremo Ganesh Naik is perhaps fighting one of the biggest battles of his political career. Our weekend exclusive today tries to find the answer to the question “Will the Ganesh Naik magic work for his son Dr. Sanjeev Naik’s victory in the Thane Lok Sabha Elections 2009?”
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NMMC Begins Pre-Monsoon work in the city.
Many of the storm water drains in Vashi and Koperkhairane were cleaned by NMMC. The work has been started as a part of the pre monsoon work of NMMC.
Storm water drains in various nodes of Vashi and Koperkhairane were cleaned by the civic body. Raising concerns over the problem of water logging during monsoons, the drains were cleaned by the civic body. It may be recalled that in the Standing Committee meeting of month of January 2009, Chairman Sandeep Naik too had appealed to the administration to take care of the road work to ensure that residents are not inconvenienced during monsoon.
Looks like with the commencement of the pre-monsoon work, the administration has taken the appeal of the Chairman Sandeep Naik seriously.
Environment and lab our Minister Ganesh Naik orders the rehabilitation of street vendors.
Labour and Enviornment Minsiter Ganesh Naik has ordered the proper rehabilitation of an estimation of an estimated hawkers who have been displaced by the ongoing work of Sanpada-Palm Beach Flyover.
Among those who have lost theirs means of livelihood were vegetable vendors and some women’s self help groups. On 10 January, they went with their grievances to labour minister Ganesh Naik immediately directed NMMC that the affected persons be provided with a suitable plot where they can continue their businesses.
“They should be rehabilitated in the same manner as the Project Affected Persons (PAPs),” the minister told the NMMC officials present on the spot.
Sandeep Naik on New Bombay plus connect 12.
As part of our ‘Reader connect’ initiative, we have started new column wherein you can Email us all your Grievances (related to civic issues) and we shall forward the same to the chairman of the standing committee of NMMC, Sandeep Naik. He will then personally look into the matter and shall take appropriate action. We shall publish your grievance and the action taken by him, ensuring full transparency every week. Last week we got several mails from our readers and we forwarded some of them to him. HERE is the response and action taken by him.
Dr.Sanjeev Naik, who became mayor of Navi Mumbai , has proved his ability to work for the welfare of the masses.
While there has been a drastic geographical change in the erstwhile PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY due to delimitation, the width of one of the new and resultant constituencies has not changes much. That means a candidate for a single constituency, such as Thane-Belapur, will have to represent an area right from Navi Mumbai to Thane,Bhayander and Uttan, as one of the major developing areas.
The interests of the people in this constituency are as varied as are the locations. Navi Mumbai has outgrown the initial expectations of the Government and CIDCO and has become a real city in readiness for the crown in the 21st Century.
There should be a contact office and the smallest of the small complaints should reach the elected representative. He should understand the aspirations of the common people in his constituency and should have viable solutions to their genuine problems.
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Dr.Sanjeev Naik, who became mayor of Navi Mumbai , has proved his ability to work for the welfare of the masses.
While there has been a drastic geographical change in the erstwhile PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY due to delimitation, the width of one of the new and resultant constituencies has not changes much. That means a candidate for a single constituency, such as Thane-Belapur, will have to represent an area right from Navi Mumbai to Thane,Bhayander and Uttan, as one of the major developing areas.
The interests of the people in this constituency are as varied as are the locations. Navi Mumbai has outgrown the initial expectations of the Government and CIDCO and has become a real city in readiness for the crown in the 21st Century.
There should be a contact office and the smallest of the small complaints should reach the elected representative. He should understand the aspirations of the common people in his constituency and should have viable solutions to their genuine problems.
This is Irrespective of the fact that he happens to be the son of the Maharashtra Minister and NCP heavyweight Mr. Ganesh Naik.
Dr.Sanjeev Naik, who became mayor of Navi Mumbai , has proved his ability to work for the welfare of the masses.
While there has been a drastic geographical change in the erstwhile PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY due to delimitation, the width of one of the new and resultant constituencies has not changes much. That means a candidate for a single constituency, such as Thane-Belapur, will have to represent an area right from Navi Mumbai to Thane,Bhayander and Uttan, as one of the major developing areas.
The interests of the people in this constituency are as varied as are the locations. Navi Mumbai has outgrown the initial expectations of the Government and CIDCO and has become a real city in readiness for the crown in the 21st Century.
There should be a contact office and the smallest of the small complaints should reach the elected representative. He should understand the aspirations of the common people in his constituency and should have viable solutions to their genuine problems.
This is Irrespective of the fact that he happens to be the son of the Maharashtra Minister and NCP heavyweight Mr. Ganesh Naik.
Sanjeev Naik -“five mantras”
On April 23, Sanjeev Naik “unveiled” his “five mantras” for the constituency’s rapid development which is:
1) Solving water crisis – by bringing the excess water from Morbe Dam to Thane in future to fulfill water requirement.
2) Healthy living – by replicating his success in getting the Cleanest City Award for Navi Mumbai to Thane and Mira-Bhayander as well.
3) Solving traffic problems – by starting sea transport and mono rail in the constituency which will not save time but also reduce the traffic on raod and help to develop reliable and low cost transportation in the region.
4) Pollution Control – by installing sewerage treatment plants in the constituency and plant more trees to protect the environment.
5) Rehabilitation of slums – through SRA similar to Mumbai’s Dharavi slum redevelopment and making the dream come true of the slum dwellers to own a house in a building.
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Voter list for Kalyan-Dombivli-Bhiwandi region can be searched online here:
http://narendrapawar.org/search/voterlist
Right now, only English is provided, we will be launching Marathi soon. Keep checking
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please DO NOT make requests for voter lists of various regions here. This is not the place for that.
If you want to download voter list rolls for your region (in PDF), go to Chief Election Officer’s site of your state (Maharashtra - http://ceo.maharashtra.gov.in)
You CANNOT get database version of voter list legally. It is not possible for Election Commission to share the database with you.
Please stop making such requests here which is not only waste of your time, but also waste of bandwidth and space on this website.
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This Blog is just a Technology blog and not a place to get information about voter lists… so please don’t ask about it.. The topic was posted because of its Technology involvement in it!!!