PANAJI: This election, individuals with disabilities (PWDs) can request for voter’s help in the form of wheelchairs as well as transportation to and from the polling booth on April 23, systematic voter’s training and electoral participation (SVEEP) nodal officer for North Goa, Gervasio Mendes mentioned.
“Wheelchairs will be available on call for. Persons with disabilities can tell their booth degree officer or segment officer in case transportation facility is required on the day of balloting. Ramps are being put in position at all polling stations and are some of the minimum confident facilities together with consuming water and bathrooms that will be available at all polling stations,” he mentioned.
Booth degree officers are maintaining booth degree data on citizens with disabilities. Persons with disabilities have also been asked to register on the election commission’s PWD app the place they can also make requests for services and products.
Electoral officials had been undertaking election awareness sessions around the state. One such drive used to be performed on the national association for the blind, the place voters have been educated about the electoral procedure. A specifically designed quiz on more than a few sides of ethical balloting used to be also held for them, SVEEP nodal officer, North Goa, Gervasio Mendes mentioned.
Another drive used to be performed in Cotigao for individuals of the Dhangar neighborhood, Sawant mentioned, the place individuals of the neighborhood, who had by no means voted earlier, have been assisted in filling up registration forms.
In the 2017 assembly polls, although ramps have been provided, some have been of brief plywood the place individuals with disabilities complained that those have been of very high gradient, with out handrails.
“Wheelchairs will be available on call for. Persons with disabilities can tell their booth degree officer or segment officer in case transportation facility is required on the day of balloting. Ramps are being put in position at all polling stations and are some of the minimum confident facilities together with consuming water and bathrooms that will be available at all polling stations,” he mentioned.
Booth degree officers are maintaining booth degree data on citizens with disabilities. Persons with disabilities have also been asked to register on the election commission’s PWD app the place they can also make requests for services and products.
Electoral officials had been undertaking election awareness sessions around the state. One such drive used to be performed on the national association for the blind, the place voters have been educated about the electoral procedure. A specifically designed quiz on more than a few sides of ethical balloting used to be also held for them, SVEEP nodal officer, North Goa, Gervasio Mendes mentioned.
Another drive used to be performed in Cotigao for individuals of the Dhangar neighborhood, Sawant mentioned, the place individuals of the neighborhood, who had by no means voted earlier, have been assisted in filling up registration forms.
In the 2017 assembly polls, although ramps have been provided, some have been of brief plywood the place individuals with disabilities complained that those have been of very high gradient, with out handrails.
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