The Om Prakash Rawat, Chief Election Commissioner along with the senior officials of the ECI is reviewing poll preparedness & District Election Plans in Telangana. The review meeting with regard to Law & Order situation and the preparation for the Assembly Elections to be held on 7th December 2018.
The officials of Election Commission held a meeting with the State Police, Nodal Officers and the Electoral Officers of the state reviewing the District Election plans with DEO’s and Superintendent of Police.
The Om Prakash Rawat, CEC has inaugurated the Mobile van equipped with EVMs & VVPATs and personally inspected the vans and enquired about the functioning of the Machines and also released the VAADA promise App and also voter ID Cards have been distributed to the physically challenged persons.
The Chief Election Commissioner said there is a need to be more sensitive towards persons with disabilities to ensure their holistic participation in the election process. C-Vigil app is also being provided by ECI to check electoral mall practices during election this app which stands for citizens vigil will be operationlised for the first time as pilot project said the CEC.
The Chief Election Commissioner along with the officials has interacted with the physically challenged persons, their representatives and enquired about the facilities which are being provided to them in the polling stations for the ensuing elections. Later on the Chief Secretary has also along with the senior officials had an interaction with the physically challenged persons.
The Dana Kishore, DEO & Commissioner, GHMC explained about the VAADA app to the ECI officials and briefed them about the facilities like transportation to them from their residences to polling stations etc., providing them Ramps, Escorts and all basic minimum facilities to them for their convenience to cast their vote without any problem.
The DEO & Commissioner, GHMC said that SVEEP (Systematic Voters Education & Electoral Participation ) provided by the ECI to be intensified to create voter awareness among the people on the importance of voting with the help of SVEEP activities. The officials can encourage the citizens to participate and to cast their franchise in the ensuing elections. As seen from the yester years the percentage of voting was around 52.46 etc., was the voter turnout. The main aim of the SVEEP activities is to involve all the citizens to cast their vote duly creating awareness about the importance of voting to increase the percentage.
The DEO said that the GHMC Senior officials in coordination with all the NGOs/SHGs/Aasara Committees/Physically challenged organizations/ RWAs/ Schools/Colleges have taken up various awareness campaigns for inclusion of names in the electoral rolls who have attend the age 18 as on 01.01.2018 so that the percentage of voters can be increased as well the citizens can cast their vote for the ensuing elections.
The DEO said that for the effective implementation of the Revision of Electoral Rolls and also to create awareness among the citizens till 25th September 2018 as per the guidelines of the ECI involving 15 NGO groups and 720 clubs which are existing in the GHMC have been taken up various publicity and awareness campaign about the SVEEP activities.
The DEO further stated that to create awareness about the working of EVMs and VVPats so that the voters will have a clear idea to cast their vote without any inconvenience for which 3 Modernized Mobile Vans have been deployed for the purpose and lot of citizens have participated where the officials have interacted with them and explained about the EVMs and VVPATs even EVM and one VVPats have been provided for 2 Wards and one Model Polling Station is being organized at GHMC Head Office with all available machinery to have a clear transparency to the officials and staff to perform their duties in a more appropriate way to increase the polling percentage.
Apart from this one EVM and One VVPats have been provided for 2 Wards where the demonstrations are being given at the Community Halls, Parks, and Ward Offices to create awareness for this purpose.