The finance ministry is yet to allocate funds for the job that began on July 1.

"The task is still going on slowly. Field level staffs engaged in updating the voter list are not enthusiastic about doing the job due to shortage of money," EC Secretary Abdur Rashid Sarkar told reporters at his office.

The EC Secretariat on July 17 proposed allocation of Tk 40.86 crore for updating the voter list.

Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman initially refused to allocate fresh funds for the job. He later asked the EC to submit accounts of the previous expenditure of Tk 43 crore for preparing a controversial fresh voter list. The EC submitted the accounts.

The minister then said he would allocate funds.

The process of voter list updating began on July 1 with the job being done at the offices concerned. And finally, door to door visits for doing the job started on July 21. But the staffs temporarily recruited for the task are reluctant to do this from the very beginning due to uncertainty over their remuneration.