Election Department conducts series of awareness activities under SVEEP

5 Dariya News

Ramban 12-Oct-2022

District Election Department Ramban, under the aegis of District Election Officer (Deputy Commissioner), Mussarat Islam conducted a series of awareness activities across the district under Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) Programme .

The events were organized in the schools and colleges of the twin Assembly Constituencies of Ramban and Banihal.During the mega awareness events held at Government Higher Secondary School, Ukhral, Senabatti, Pogal and Maligam, hundreds of students, staff, PRIs and the general public took part in the SVEEP activities.

Simultaneous camps, under Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls-2022, were also held for the registration of Voters and Aadhar linkage of electorates at various places.SDM, Ramsoo, Viqar Giri, Deputy District Election Officer, Lal Chand, Chief Education Officer Ramban, Dev Anand, Principal of host School, Madan Lal and resource persons dwelt in detail about the SSR and importance of being a voter.

The pledge was also administered to participants to register themselves as a voter in Electoral Rolls, besides educating them about the online portal for registration of voters’ on the National Voters Service Portal (NVSP) and Mobile Voter Helpline App.

Meanwhile, students and local artists through IEC activities like Motivational speeches, Nukkad Natak, Cultural skits and promotional songs to sensitize the participants about SSR 2022.Registration Camp for on-the-spot registration of eligible students/Voters was also conducted.

The registration forms were distributed and filled-in forms were received from the eligible voters.The Dy. DEO, SDM and other speakers threw light on various aspects of being a voter and urged the age-specific students who have attained the 18 yrs on 1st Oct 2022 to enroll themselves in the Electoral list, besides further disseminating the awareness among existing voters for modifications in the list, if any.

All the BLOs of the area also attended the event. Special stress was laid on the inclusion of the voters in the voter list, special summary revision, the importance of vote, and the power of vote. The BLOs concerned were given on-the-spot directions to include the name of all the eligible voters in the electoral rolls.

A specially-abled voter Nayeen Khan was also felicitated by the administration on the occasion.Among others, BDC, Chairperson, PRIs, besides Sectoral and tehsil officers, and a large number of locals participated in the programme.