CHANDIGARH: The Election  Commission of India  has directed  that  all   the electors  in  19-Amritsar South  Assembly  Constituency,  who have been issued their Elector Photo Identity Cards (EPICs),  shall have to produce these cards to exercise their franchise, when they come to the polling stations for voting at the current bye-election to the  Legislative Assembly.

The Election Commission has also directed that such residual voters, whose names are there on the electoral rolls but who have not received their EPICs, may be permitted to use alternative ID documents. The documents specified by the Commission are  Passports, Driving Licenses,    Income Tax Identity (PAN) Cards,  Service Identity Cards with photograph issued to its employees by State/Central Government, Public Sector Undertakings or Public Limited Companies, Passbooks issued by Public Sector Banks/Post Office and Kisan Passbooks     (Accounts opened on or before 31-3-2008), Property Documents such as Pattas, Registered Deeds, etc, Ration Cards issued on or before 31-3-2008 with photograph,  SC/ST/OBC Certificates issued by competent authority on or before 31-3-2008,  Pension Documents such as ex-servicemen's Pension    Book/Pension Payment Order, ex-servicemen's  widow/Dependent Certificates,   Old  Age Pension Order,Widow Pension Order, Freedom Fighter Identity Cards,   Arms Licenses issued on or before 31-3-2008,  Certificate of Physical Handicap by Competent Authority issued on or before  31-3-2008,   Air Force/Navy/Army personnel identification cards with photograph.

The election Commission als clarified that  any document, as enumerated above, which is available only for the Head of Family, shall be allowed for the purpose of identification of other members of the family provided that all the members come together and are identified by the head of the family.