OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER, H.P.
CITIZEN’S CHARTER
You are entitled to be an Elector in the Photo Electoral Rolls of your Assembly Constituency if you are:
Note:- No person shall be entitled to be registered in the electoral rolls for more than one constituency or more than once in any electoral roll for an Assembly Constituency.
Form 6: Any citizen of India whose name is not included in the Photo Electoral Roll of the Assembly Constituency under which his/ her residence falls but satisfies the above-mentioned criteria may apply on Form-6 (in duplicate) to the ERO(SDM) of the concerned Assembly Constituency for the inclusion of his/ her name along with one passport size colored photograph and the following documents:-
Date of Birth (With Documentary Proof)
Fill up the date of birth in figures in the space provided in dd/mm/yyyy.
Proofs of date of birth to be attached are as under:
Note: Documentary proof of age will be required only in those cases where age of the applicant is between 18 and 21 years. In all other cases declaration of his age by the applicant will be taken as proof of age.
Fill up the full and complete postal address including PIN code where you are ordinarily residing and want to get registered in the space provided.
Proof of ordinary residence to be attached are as under:
Form 6A: Every overseas elector, i.e., Indian citizen who is absenting from his place of ordinary residence in India owing to employment, education or otherwise, and has not acquired citizenship of any other country and who is not included in the electoral roll, is entitled to have his/her name registered in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence in India as mentioned in his/her passport is located.
In terms of rule 8A of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960, every overseas elector whose place of residence in India is located in the State of Himachal Pradesh who has completed 18 years of age, and is desirous of registering his/her name in the electoral roll, can submit claim application in Form-6A for registration in the electoral roll of the constituency in which his/her place of residence as shown in the passport is located. The claim application in Form-6A may be either submitted in person directly to the
registration officer of the constituency concerned or sent to such registration officer by post alongwith the documents mentioned in Form-6A and the guidelines. When the claim application is sent by post, it should be accompanied by photocopies of the relevant pages of the passport duly self- attested.
Form 7: Application for objecting to inclusion of name or seeking deletion of name from Photo Electoral Rolls.
Form 8: Application for correction of name or any particular of an elector in the Photo Electoral Rolls.
As per Sub-Section (8) of Section 20 of the R.P. Act, 1950 service qualification means:-
If any person having the above service qualifications desires to be registered in the last part of roll for the constituency in which he would have been ordinarily resident, he shall submit a statement in duplicate in one of the forms 2, 2A and 3, as may be applicable along with the “Declaration” to the Electoral Registration Officer (SDM) of the constituency through his record office.
Form-2: Statement as to place of ordinary residence by a member of the Armed Forces.
Form-2A: Statement as to place of ordinary residence by a member of an Armed Police Force of a State who is serving outside that State.
Form-3: Statement as to place of ordinary residence by a person employed under the Government of India in a post outside India.
The wife of service voter belonging to any of the four categories mentioned above and ordinarily residing with him is also eligible to be registered in the last part of Electoral Roll as an elector along with her husband.
However, if any service voter does not want the above facility of enrolment in his native place, he may get himself registered as an ordinary elector at the place of his service/posting at the time of house-to-house enumeration or by filing claim in Form-6.
CAUTION:- It may be noted that any person who furnishes false information can be prosecuted under section 31 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, which prescribes imprisonment up to one year or fine or with both for such offence.
e-Registration :
Election Department has introduced e-registration facility on the website "voterportal.eci.gov.in" for the new electors. Any eligible citizen who fulfills all the requirements as shown in Para-I can get himself/herself enrolled in photo-electoral roll by filling up Form-6 online on official website of Election Department i.e. “ceohimachal.nic.in”. Citizens can also fill Form-7, for deletions of name form Electoral Roll & Form-8 for Shifting of Residence or Correction of Entries Electoral Roll or Issue of Replacement EPIC without correction or Request for marking as Person with Disability, as the case may be. Citizens can also download these forms from department’s official website and submit them to the concerned Electoral Registration Officer (SDM) for inclusion, deletion, modification and transposition of his/her name, as the case may be. Our e-mail address is ‘election-hp@nic.in’.
Photo Electoral Rolls of all 68-Assembly Constituencies have been uploaded on the website of Election Department to enable general public to have access to it. Search facility has also been provided on the website "voterportal.eci.gov.in" for the citizens of Himachal Pradesh to search their names in the Electoral Rolls.
There are two search facilities viz (a) Search by Voter Card No. (b) Search by Name. (a) By entering Voter Identity Card No. and District, a person can ascertain his/her name, relation name, A.C. name, Serial No. and Polling Station location. (b) A person can ascertain his/her Elector Photo Identity Card (EPIC) No. by entering his/her name, name of his/her district & relatives name.
On the directions of Election Commission of India, New Delhi, the department has established “Call Center” for the convenience of public. Any person from any part of the country can lodge his/her complaint relating to Electoral Rolls, Elector’s Photo Identity Card, Violation of Model Code of Conduct, etc. by registering himself/herself on the website "voters.eci.gov.in/home/ngsp" using his/her mobile number or call on our toll free number “1950”. Landline and mobile phone users within the State can file their complaint by dialing “1950”. However landline/mobile users from outside the state may register their complaints by dialing “0177-1950”. Election Department Call Center staff is available for your services from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on all working days.
The Common Service Centre (CSC) popularly known as Lokmitra Kendra project in Himachal Pradesh aims at establishing 3366 e-Governance centers at Panchayat level in the state. The following services of Election Department are available at these centers:-
Citizens can lodge applications for inclusion, deletion, transposition and modifications of entries in the photo electoral rolls at any time under Continuous Updation process of Electoral Rolls and ordinarily the applications received in a calendar month will be disposed off during next month and the manuscript got prepared for every part separately in duplicate by hand by 25th of that month. At the end of every calendar month and by 7th of the following month, one copy of the manuscripts will be transferred to the District Election
Officer for data entry in the computerized working copy of the photo electoral rolls. However, no applications will be disposed off in the period from the last date of filing nominations for any election till the conclusion of the election process. Whenever, a revision programme is announced by the Election Commission of India, the entire process of disposing claims and objections will be as per the approved programme.
After your name is registered in the Photo Electoral Roll of the concerned Assembly Constituency, you become eligible for issue of Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC).If the name of an elector exists in the PER and his/her photo/image does not exist in the PER or if the name of an elector exist in the PER and however, he has not been issued with an EPIC in such cases, he/she should submit a passport size photograph to the ERO/BLO. The ERO/BLO will ensure that his image is printed in PER or EPIC prepared or delivered to him/her. Initially the card is issued free of cost. In case, the EPIC is lost or mutilated or if the elector himself desires any modification of particulars, he can get it prepared again by paying a sum of Rs.25/- for a duplicate card. The photo-identity cards so prepared will be distributed among the electors within 15 days through the BLOs.
The following norms have been fixed for the issue of certified copies of Photo Electoral Rolls and inspection thereof: -
A person shall be qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in Parliament or State Legislative Assembly if he:-
A candidate not set up by a Recognized Political Party shall get his nomination paper subscribed by 10 proposers, being electors of that constituency. For a Parliamentary Constituency, the amount of security depositis Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. 5,000/- for SC/ST). In case of Assembly Constituency and Rajya Sabha these amounts are Rs. 5,000/- and Rs. 2,500/- respectively.
No person shall be eligible for election as President/Vice President unless he:-
Parliamentary Constituency |
= |
Rs. 40, 00, 000 |
Assembly Constituency |
= |
Rs. 11, 00, 000 |
To be an ideal, vigilant citizen of Indian democracy:
The Election Department has on line grievance redressal facility known as “e-Samadhan”. Any grievance pertaining to the department can be entered in e-samadhan by logging on to http.//admis. hp.nic.in/esamadhan. The Election Department has also constituted a Grievance Redressal Mechanism at State as well as District/Sub-Division level as under:
Office Level. |
District. |
Location of the offices that will deal with the Grievance (Name & Address). |
Nodal Officer Designation. |
Nodal Official e-mail Address. |
Telephone No. |
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6 |
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State Head Quarter |
Shimla. |
Chief Electoral Officer, Himachal Pradesh |
Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Himachal Pradesh |
election-hp@nic.in |
0177-2621551 |
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District level. |
Shimla. |
District Election Office, Shimla. |
ADC, Shimla. |
elect-shi- hp@nic.in |
0177- 2653436, 2657005 |
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Kangra. |
District |
ADM, Kangra |
elect-kan-hp@nic.in |
01892- |
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Election |
at |
223321 |
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Office, |
Dharamshala. |
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Kangra at |
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Dharamshala. |
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Hamirpur. |
District |
ADM, |
elect- ham-hp@nic.in |
01972- |
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Election |
Hamirpur. |
224324 |
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Office, |
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Hamirpur. |
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Mandi. |
District |
DEO (DC), |
elect- man-hp@nic.in |
01905- |
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Election |
Mandi. |
225201 |
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Office, Mandi. |
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Una. |
District Election Office, Una. |
ADM, Una. |
elect-una- hp@nic.in |
01975- 225800 |
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Chamba. |
District |
ADM, |
elect-cha-hp@nic.in |
01899- |
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Election |
Chamba. |
222540 |
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Office, |
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Chamba. |
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Bilaspur. |
District |
ADM, |
elect-blp-hp@nic.in |
01978- |
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Election |
Bilaspur. |
224155 |
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Office, |
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Bilaspur. |
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Kullu. |
District |
Tehsildar |
elect-kul-hp@nic.in |
01902- |
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Election |
(Election), |
222536 |
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Office, Kullu. |
Kullu. |
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Lahaul & |
District |
Tehsildar |
elect-lah-hp@nic.in |
01900- |
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Spiti. |
Election |
(Election), |
222225 |
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Office, |
Keylong. |
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Keylong. |
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Solan. |
District Election Office, Solan. |
ADM, Solan. |
elect-sol- hp@nic.in |
01792- 223705 |
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Sirmour. |
District |
Tehsildar |
elect-sir-hp@nic.in |
01702- |
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Election |
(Election), |
222620 |
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Office, Nahan. |
Nahan. |
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Kinnaur. |
District |
Tehsildar |
elect-kin-hp@nic.in |
01786- |
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Election |
(Election), |
222051 |
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Office, |
Reckongpeo. |
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Reckongpeo. |
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Sub |
Kangra. |
SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
01892- |
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Divisional |
Dharamshala. |
Dharamshala. |
erodharamshala.hp@eci.gov.in |
223315 |
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Level. |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
erokangra.hp@eci.gov.in |
01892- |
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Kangra. |
Kangra. |
265024 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
eropalampur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01894- |
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Palampur. |
Palampur. |
230595 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
erobaijnath.hp@eci.gov.in |
01894- |
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Baijnath. |
Baijnath. |
263656 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
erojaisinghpur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01894- |
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Jaisinghpur. |
Jaisinghpur. |
228111 |
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SDEO, Dehra. |
ERO (SDM), Dehra. |
erodehra.hp@eci.gov.in |
01970- 233102 |
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SDEO, Jawali. |
ERO (SDM), Jawali. |
erojawali.hp@eci.gov.in |
01893- 264310 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
eronurpur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01893- |
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Nurpur. |
Nurpur. |
220024 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Bilaspur. |
SDEO, Sadar Bilaspur. |
ERO (SDM), Sadar Bilaspur. |
erobilaspur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01978- 224798 |
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SDEO, Ghumarwin. |
1. AERO (Tehsildar), Jhandutta for 46- Jhandutta (SC) AC. |
erojhandutta.hp@eci.gov.in |
01978- 255227 |
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2. AERO (Tehsildar), Ghumarwin for 47- Ghumarwin (AC). |
eroghumarwin.hp@eci.gov.in |
01978- 255227 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Una. |
SDEO, Una. |
ERO (SDM), Una. |
erouna.hp@eci.gov.in |
01975- 223621 |
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SDEO, Amb. |
ERO (SDM), Amb. |
erokutlehar.hp@eci.gov.in |
01976- 261203 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Solan. |
SDEO, Solan. |
ERO (SDM), Solan. |
erosolan.hp@eci.gov.in |
01792- 223707 |
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SDEO, Arki. |
ERO (SDM), Arki. |
eroarki.hp@eci.gov.in |
01796- 220666 |
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SDEO, Nalagarh. |
ERO (SDM), Nalagarh. |
eronalagarh.hp@eci.gov.in |
01795- 223024 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Mandi |
SDEO, Sadar Mandi. |
ERO (SDM), Sadar Mandi. |
eromandi.hp@eci.gov.in |
01905- 225207 |
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SDEO, Sarkaghat. |
ERO (SDM), Sarkaghat. |
erosarkaghat.hp@eci.gov.in |
01905- 230042 |
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SDEO, Sundernagar. |
ERO (SDM), Sundarnagar. |
erosundernagar.hp@eci.gov.in |
01907- 266001 |
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SDEO, Karsog |
ERO (SDM), Karsog |
erokarsog.hp@eci.gov.in |
01907- 222236 |
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SDEO, Chachiot at Gohar. |
ERO (SDM), Chachiot at Gohar. |
eronachan.hp@eci.gov.in |
01909- 250262 |
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SDEO, Joginder- nagar. |
ERO (SDM), Joginder- nagar. |
erojogindernagar.hp@eci.gov.in |
01908- 222095 |
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Sub Divisional |
Kullu. |
SDEO, Kullu. |
ERO (SDM), Kullu. |
erokullu.hp@eci.gov.in |
01902- 222696 |
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Level. |
SDEO, Anni. |
ERO (SDM), Anni. |
eroanni.hp@eci.gov.in |
01904- 253387 |
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SDEO, Banjar. |
ERO (SDM), Banjar. |
erobanjar.hp@eci.gov.in |
01903- 222253 |
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SDEO, Manali. |
ERO (SDM), Manali. |
eromanali.hp@eci.gov.in |
01902- 254100 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Sirmour. |
SDEO, Rajgarh. |
ERO (SDM), Rajgarh. |
eroshillai.hp@eci.gov.in |
01799- 221034 |
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SDEO, Paonta. |
ERO (SDM), Paonta. |
eropaontasahib.hp@eci.gov.in |
01704- 224100 |
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SDEO, Nahan. |
ERO (SDM), Nahan. |
eronahan.hp@eci.gov.in |
01702- 222239 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Chamba. |
SDEO, Bhatiyat. |
ERO (SDM), Bhatiya. |
erobhattiyat.hp@eci.gov.in |
01899- 266455 |
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SDEO, Dalhousie. |
ERO (SDM), Dalhousie. |
erodalhousie.hp@eci.gov.in |
01899- 242122 |
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SDEO, Churah. |
ERO (SDM), Churah. |
erochurah.hp@eci.gov.in |
01896- 227033 |
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SDEO, Chamba. |
ERO (SDM), Chamba. |
erochamba.hp@eci.gov.in |
01899- 222278 |
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SDEO, Bharmour. |
ERO (ADM), Bharmour. |
erobharmour.hp@eci.gov.in |
01895- 225027 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Hamirpur. |
SDEO, Hamirpur. |
ERO (SDM), Hamirpur. |
erohamirpur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01972- 224304 |
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SDEO, Nadaun. |
ERO (SDM), Nadaun. |
eronadaun.hp@eci.gov.in |
01972- 232511 |
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SDEO, Bhoranj. |
ERO (SDM), Bhoranj. |
erobhoranj.hp@eci.gov.in |
01972- 266928 |
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SDEO, Barsar |
ERO (SDM), Barsar |
erobarsar.hp@eci.gov.in |
01972- 288045 |
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Sub Divisional Level. |
Shimla |
SDEO, Rampur. |
ERO (SDM), Rampur. |
erorampur.hp@eci.gov.in |
01782- 233002 |
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SDEO, Rohru. |
ERO (SDM), Rohru. |
erorohru.hp@eci.gov.in |
01781- 240009 |
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SDEO, Chopal. |
ERO (SDM), Chopal. |
erochopal.hp@eci.gov.in |
01783- 260014 |
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SDEO, Theog. |
ERO (SDM), Theog. |
erotheog.hp@eci.gov.in |
01783- 238502 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
eroshimla.hp@eci.gov.in |
0177- |
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Shimla (U). |
Shimla (U). |
2657013 |
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SDEO, |
ERO (SDM), |
eroshimlarural.hp@eci.gov.in |
0177- |
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Shimla (R). |
Shimla (R). |
2657007 |
In case, you want to seek clarification about any of the services or wish to convey any grievance, please contact any of the offices/ officers listed above.
Block No. 38, SDA Complex, Kasumpti, Shimla-171009.
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