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Bihar may overshoot deadline
for issuing photo I-cards

Over 30 million of the 50 million voters in Bihar are yet to get photo identity cards, mandatory during elections.

Sources in the state elections commission's office said the cards would be distributed by early next year as the process of preparing them would not start before November.

It would then take at least three weeks to photograph voters in over 150 of the 243 assembly constituencies in the state, they said.

The Election Commission of India has fixed December 31 as the last date for all states to issue the cards, but Bihar is one of the few states which are yet to start work on issuing the cards.

Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar N S Madhvan had on Monday chaired a meeting, attended by district magistrate of 20 out of the 37 districts in the state, to discuss the issue.

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