The Election Commission will commence the door-to-door data collection campaign on Monday throughout the country to update the electoral rolls.
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin will open the voter list updating programme-2025 at Savar upazila parishad auditorium in Dhaka Monday morning.
Meanwhile, CEC AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday said that the election commission was working to clear all doubts over the electoral rolls.
鈥榃e are doing it [updating the voter lists] to clear the doubts. We are engaging so many people in the field. We are certainly hopeful that all doubts will be cleared, Inshallah,鈥� he said, replying to a question from reporters at an event at Nirbachan Bhaban in Dhaka.
The door-to-door data collection campaign will continue till February 3 and the collection of biometric data of the eligible voters will be taken from February 5 to April 11.
During the field-level data collection campaign, enumerators will collect the data of the eligible voters who were born on and before January 1, 2008. They will also collect applications from the existing voters who intended to change voting addresses and the data of deceased voters for dropping their names from the voter lists.
On the eve of the countrywide voter list updating programme, the United Nations Development Programme resident representative Stefan Liller handed over 175 laptops, 200 scanners and 4300 bags to the CEC in Dhaka鈥檚 Nirbachan Bhaban.
According to the electoral training institute, more than 66,000 people have already received training over the voter listing updating programme. The trained people include 55,016 enumerators and 11,801 supervisors.
The EC will publish the draft updated electoral rolls incorporating the names of new voters on January 2, 2026. Following the resettlement of claims and objections, the commission will make the final electoral rolls on March 2, 2026.