RANCHI: The state management is leaving no stones unturned to achieve out to voters and urge them to workout their franchise within the Lok Sabha election. The Jharkhand administrative center of the chief electoral officer has set up three,359 Electoral Literacy Clubs (ELC) in colleges and colleges across the state with an aim to unfold consciousness a few of the first-time voters.
L Khiangte, state’s leader electoral officer, said, “The election commission will meet the deans and registrars of universities across the state to involve the ELCs in lively consciousness campaigns. We may even behavior a equivalent consultation of school ambassadors at the district level within the first week of April.”
Meanwhile in Ranchi, the ELC of St Xavier’s College has been engaged in various Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) activities quickly after the dates of the elections were introduced earlier this month.
“We have organised a number of boulevard performs throughout the ELC of St Xavier’s College. Other activities, together with a ridicule ballot, were held in various colleges in Ranchi,” Shweta Ved, government Justice of the Peace and joint in-charge of SVEEP (Ranchi), said.
Apart from drawing the eye of first-time voters in colleges, the ELCs within the colleges involving the scholars of Class IX to XIII will educate other students about the electoral process.
“The state election commission has also set up 20,118 ‘Chunav Pathshala’ at polling cubicles to achieve out to voters in rural areas,” Khiangte said.
Khiangte additional said that 37,097 service voters will solid their votes from far and wide Jharkhand, with Ranchi registering the highest number of service voters (6,681).
L Khiangte, state’s leader electoral officer, said, “The election commission will meet the deans and registrars of universities across the state to involve the ELCs in lively consciousness campaigns. We may even behavior a equivalent consultation of school ambassadors at the district level within the first week of April.”
Meanwhile in Ranchi, the ELC of St Xavier’s College has been engaged in various Systematic Voter’s Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) activities quickly after the dates of the elections were introduced earlier this month.
“We have organised a number of boulevard performs throughout the ELC of St Xavier’s College. Other activities, together with a ridicule ballot, were held in various colleges in Ranchi,” Shweta Ved, government Justice of the Peace and joint in-charge of SVEEP (Ranchi), said.
Apart from drawing the eye of first-time voters in colleges, the ELCs within the colleges involving the scholars of Class IX to XIII will educate other students about the electoral process.
“The state election commission has also set up 20,118 ‘Chunav Pathshala’ at polling cubicles to achieve out to voters in rural areas,” Khiangte said.
Khiangte additional said that 37,097 service voters will solid their votes from far and wide Jharkhand, with Ranchi registering the highest number of service voters (6,681).
EC sets up 3,000 electoral clubs in schools, colleges for poll awareness
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