According to the EC decision, the district and upazila election officers concerned will recruit them. Besides, the election officers will recruit other staff including enumerators and supervisors, sources said.

Students of colleges and universities can be hired for the task of data entry of the voters and they will be paid Tk 5 per entry.

The chief election commissioner (CEC) on Wednesday announced that the field level task of preparing the voter list with photographs will begin from mid July at Rajshahi City Corporation.

On completion of the ongoing Sreepur pilot project, the procedure for preparing the voter list will be finalised.

Meanwhile, election commissioners Sahul Hossain and Brig Gen (retd) Sakhawat Hossain yesterday visited Sreepur municipality area of Gazipur where the pilot project is being implemented and exchanged views with the locals about the project.

The pilot project began on June 10 and is scheduled to end on June 30.

During the view exchange meeting, locals alleged that they found mistakes in the preparation of national identity cards. "Not all names were correctly spelled in the cards," a local told the election commissioners.

Another local said that there is no column in the voter registration forms for husbands of married women.

The election commissioners assured them of correcting the mistakes.

They also urged people to enrol as voters to ensure their rights as citizens.

Sources said that the enumerators distributed 7,292 voter registration forms among the prospective voters by visiting door to door and a total of 742 national identity cards were distributed since the beginning of the pilot project.

Only 2,812 people visited the voter registration centres to register their names as of Wednesday.