An official release said here that the entire rolls which were published on January 7 after the annual summary revision was put on CD-ROM for supply to political parties and for sale to the members of the public.

The CD-ROM version of the rolls has been formally released by Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar at a simple function. Senior officials, including Chief Secretary V. Thulasidas and Chief Electoral Officer Sanjib Ranjan were present at the function.

Copies of the CD would be supplied to the recognised political parties free of cost for their use, the release added. The release said one of the major objectives of computerisation of electoral rolls was to make it easily accessible to the political parties and members of the public to ensure transparency of the entire process. For this purpose, it was decided to make the rolls available on computer and offer facilities to political parties and general public to review the database and obtain rolls at their convenience.